Single Idea 23251

[catalogued under 15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / a. Mind]

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 Reference

'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.