Homer didn't have a comprehensive word for mind.
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the psyche and the conscious self had not yet been combined.
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He understood events as repetition of the past,
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and individual consciousness was not a part of that.
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But early Greek thought played a role in the complicate history
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of the concept of the soul.
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By the time of Plato these ideas had taken shape.
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The Phaedo and Timaeus are works which demonstrate
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the consious separation of the knower from the known
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and the dual nature of the body and the soul.
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Modern thought was possible:
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the complicated history of the concept of the soul.
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Whoa!
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Pythagoras and Orphic doctrines all came into play,
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because Plato was a mystic in his own Platonic way.
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The pre-Socratic Naturalists saw things in terms of "stuff".
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But Plato's metaphysics showed that this was not enough.
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This is the incredible complicated history of the concept of the soul.
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Rock and roll.
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The History Of The Concept Of The Soul
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