The Eleatics found the Source level and were unable to find their way back. They arrived at Being, one, undivided, unchanging, and concluded that everything below it was an illusion. The soul, as individual and temporal and changing, had no place in their architecture. The…
The Milesians found soul distributed through matter. Heraclitus found the soul participating in governing logos. Anaxagoras found an unmixed intelligence standing apart from everything it organizes. Each step located the animating principle at a higher level of organization, with cleaner distinctions and more structural clarity.…
Link to YouTube Video The Milesians asked what soul is made of. They answered with substance, water, air, the intelligent breath holding the cosmos together. And they were right about one thing, whatever soul is, it is everywhere. The world is alive. The animating principle…
Link to YouTube Video Before Socrates, Plato, or Aristotle, there were three men who looked at the world and asked a question no one had framed quite that way before. What makes something alive? And underneath that question, the real one. What is the soul?…