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Single Idea 274

[from 'The Laws' by Plato, in 28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof ]

Full Idea

Soul must be cause of good and evil, beauty and ugliness, justice and injustice, and all the opposites.

Clarification

'Soul' is the Greek word 'psuché', which covers mind and consciousness and life

Gist of Idea

Soul must be the cause of all the opposites, such as good and evil or beauty and ugliness

Source

Plato (The Laws [c.348 BCE], 896d)

Book Reference

Plato: 'The Laws', ed/tr. Saunders,Trevor J [Penguin 1970], p.427