SOUL AND BODY IN NUMENIUS OF APAMEA
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https://doi.org/10.15691/0718-5448Vol1Iss2a247Keywords:
Numenius, soul, matter, body, beingAbstract
In this paper I will study the relationship between soul and body in Numenius of Apamea, by analysing some of the fragments and testimonies preserved by various sources. I will show how these texts have as a common background the controversy against the Stoics. On the other hand, I will argue that the conception of the soul as a principle of stability, on the one hand, and as a principle of movement, on the other, is resolved in a differentiation between two types of movements: one that guarantees the stability, the order and the rationality of the real and the other that involves irrationality and disorder. Precisely, in the encounter and interaction between both psychic movements are the world and the humans, as beings that are corporeal and animated.
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