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Full Idea
The Stoics think that we are exclusively moved by reason, because the soul in a narrow sense is nothing but reason.
Gist of Idea
The Stoics think that soul in the narrow sense is nothing but reason
Source
report of Stoic school (fragments/reports [c.200 BCE]) by Michael Frede - Intro to 'Rationality in Greek Thought' p.8
Book Ref
'Rationality in Greek Thought', ed/tr. Frede,M /Striker,G [OUP 1999], p.8
A Reaction
Presumably that means that desires and perceptions are not part of the 'narrow' soul. This is the culmination of Socratic intellectualism.
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| 3960 | There are no such things as minds, but people have mental properties [Davidson] |
| 2553 | The mind is a property, or it is baffling [Rorty] |
| 4969 | I regard the mind-body problem as wide open, and extremely confusing [Kripke] |
| 3295 | Inner v outer brings astonishment that we are a particular person [Nagel] |
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