
Richard Seaford on the Origins of the Soul
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Is There a Word for the Inner Self?
In Homer there's no word for the inner self as a bounded comprehensive entity of consciousness. I like the term inner self because it implies an individual but just the inner dimension of the individual and is quite close therefore to soul and mind. One perhaps is best advised to think of them in terms of their opposites so the soul is as it were the opposite to the body. The subject is opposite to the object and the self is opposite to others. It can't be confused with what is outside it. We have sukei in Homer don't we but it means something. But it only has one role which is to leave the body on loss of consciousness whether on death or on fain
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