"How can the soul be one with what it wears [i.e., the body]? For a shirt is not one with the person wearing it."

— Nemesius of Emesa (fl. c. 390)


Work Title
Date
c. 400 AD
Metaphor
"How can the soul be one with what it wears [i.e., the body]? For a shirt is not one with the person wearing it."
Metaphor in Context
[Plato] did not hold that an animal is made up of soul and body, but that it is the soul using the body and (as it were) wearing the body... This claim raises a problem: How can the soul be one with what it wears? For a shirt is not one with the person wearing it
(3 {375] 51-2)
Categories
Provenance
Reading the Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy (213)
Theme
Mind-Body Problem
Date of Entry
04/19/2004
Date of Review
12/03/2008

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.