Note 41 — Chapter XXV · PHÆDON.
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Plato, Phædon, pp. 86-95. κρᾶσιν καὶ ἁρμονίαν, &c.
“Animam esse harmoniam complures quidem statuerant, sed aliam alii, et diversâ ratione,” says Wyttenbach ad Phædon. p. 86. Lucretius as well as Plato impugns the doctrine, iii. 97.
Galen, a great admirer of Plato, though not pretending to determine positively wherein the essence of the soul consists, maintains a doctrine substantially the same as what is here impugned — that it depends upon a certain κρᾶσις of the elements and properties in the bodily organism — Περὶ τῶν τῆς ψυχῆς ἠθῶν, vol. iv. pp. 774-775, 779-782, ed. Kühn. He complains much of the unsatisfactory explanations of Plato on this point.