The World Soul: Did the Ancients Believe the Universe Was Alive?
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The World Soul: Did the Ancients Believe the Universe Was Alive?
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This episode follows Plato’s Timaeus, a fourth-century BCE Greek dialogue where the cosmos is described as a living being with soul and intelligence. The story moves through the dialogue’s qualified account of cosmic order, the body of the universe, the mathematical construction of the world soul, and the circles of Same and Different. It then traces how the problem changed as Aristotle tested the mechanism in On the Soul, later testimony preserved Stoic accounts of a rational living cosmos, Plotinus placed Soul within a hierarchy of the One and Intellect, Porphyry arranged Plotinus’s writings, and Calcidius translated and commented on part of the Timaeus for Latin readers. The episode separates Plato’s text from later reception and keeps open the central question: whether the world soul was meant literally, philosophically, or both.
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YES OR NO: Does Plato’s Timaeus leave the world soul’s literal status unresolved??????