The "one-in-many" soul derives from "not-in-many" as if it were an image stamped by one ring on many pieces of wax
— Plotinus (c. 205-270)
Author
Work Title
Date
250
Metaphor
The "one-in-many" soul derives from "not-in-many" as if it were an image stamped by one ring on many pieces of wax
Metaphor in Context
[...] one and the same soul is present in many bodies, and before this one-in-many there is another not-in-many: the one-in-many [derives] from this, as if it were an image coming to many places from the one-in-one, as if many pieces of wax were stamped by one ring and bore the same impression. (4.9.4)
Categories
Provenance
Reading MacDonald's History of the Concept of Mind
Citation
See text at The Internet Classics Archive, trans. by Stephen Mackenna, & B.S. <Link to classics.mit.edu>
Date of Entry
06/23/2003
