Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Epicurus, Democritus and A.R. Lacey

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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind

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Democritus says the soul is the body, and thinking is thus the mixture of the body [Democritus, by Theophrastus]

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Democritus says spherical atoms are fire, and constitute the soul [psuche] [Democritus, by Aristotle]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 5. Causal Argument

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The soul cannot be incorporeal, because then it could neither act nor be acted upon [Epicurus]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / a. Physicalism critique

1909	How can pleasure or judgement occur in a heap of atoms? [Sext.Empiricus on Epicurus]