Interesting I might have to add that one to my list of reading materials. I tried to clarify terminology early on so this wouldn't be an issue. According to the gnostic ideas you presented then the concept I'm referring to as a soul would actually be the gnostic spirit/ghost (more than the actual physiology of breathing and the mind I referred to would be the gnostic soul.
The agnostics ran stuff for a while and were heavily influenced by the Platonic idea of an immortal soul:
I'll talk more on this later I need sleep.
The agnostics ran stuff for a while and were heavily influenced by the Platonic idea of an immortal soul:
Quote:Plato, drawing on the words of his teacher Socrates, considered the soul the essence of a person, being that which decides how we behave. He considered this essence to be an incorporeal, eternal occupant of our being. As bodies die the soul is continually reborn in subsequent bodies. The Platonic soul comprises three parts:... borrowed from wiki
1. the logos (mind, nous, or reason)
2. the thymos (emotion, or spiritedness, or masculine)
3. the eros (appetitive, or desire, or feminine)
Each of these has a function in a balanced, level and peaceful soul.
I'll talk more on this later I need sleep.
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