Sentence examples for function of soul from inspiring English sources

What is the function of soul?

It then attributes to the soul the function of "caring for things, ruling and deliberating (and all the things of this kind)", and adds that living is also part of the function of soul (353d).

We make nonsense of the argument if we suppose (with Robinson 1995, 36) that when Socrates introduces living as part of the function of soul, he has being alive in mind.

B107 (quoted above) indicates that understanding is a function of soul, and in B117, the drunken man who must be led by a boy because he has lost control of his legs, and also does not know where he goes or what he does.

In fact it is arguable that the Stoics, in limiting the functions of soul in the way they did, played an important role in a complicated history that resulted in the Cartesian conception of mind, according to which the mind plainly is not something that animates living bodies.

In contrast to Leibniz, who maintains that the human soul is self-contained (or windowless), Wolff believes that the power to represent is a function of the soul and the way the soul is able to interact with its reality.

There were philosophers then, as there probably always will be, who wanted to argue that the intellect was a function of the soul, having no existence outside of the soul.

This transcendental function of the soul allows Albert to focus on what he believes is the essence of the soul — the human intellect.

You can't help wondering, at such times, what the function of a soul might be: is it a fancy name for the superego — a shackle on untoward behavior, waiting to be unlocked?

First, similarly to Leibniz, Wolff believes the principal function of the soul is found in its power to "represent" (i.e., form thoughts about things).

Kant describes the function he had in mind as "a blind but indispensable function of the soul" (A78=B103), so he meant something rather different from what we now mean by the term 'imagination' (A120 and fn).