(December 5, 2011 at 8:55 am)Epimethean Wrote: There is actually a great debate over those beans. Here is one of my favorite overviews. I had a fantastic cosmology professor from Harvard who made a case for the bean having "psyche" as well. Lots of thoughts on these little buggers.
http://www.philosophicalmisadventures.com/?p=15
Very interesting site!
The commentators, however, seem to think highly of Pythagoras.
For Pythagoras there is the “σωματικόν» (of the body) part and the “ψυχικόν» (of the soul) part. What he allegedly said, therefore, is that intestinal gas has not to do only with the bodily part but the spiritual one as well, which is plain nonsense.
Why did god create philosophers?