Don't take my word as definitive, however! It is interesting to note of the two types of soul that they would seem to "fight." So do we have two souls, then, that conflict? Or is it one soul with two impulses? According to my own view, it would be the latter...
I do think there's something of the "ought" in this one, as Sallustius does reference virtue and vice. And there does seem to be a dualism here, in which the body and the irrational (carnal?) impulses of the soul are deprecated, while the rational soul (the engineer!) tends to use the body as an (imperfect) vehicle.
This all would seem to jibe with Proclus's division of the various aspects of existence, with body (the material part of the cosmos) being at the bottom and the intellect at the top, straining upwards toward celestial things.
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Date: 2021-12-22 08:55 pm (UTC)I do think there's something of the "ought" in this one, as Sallustius does reference virtue and vice. And there does seem to be a dualism here, in which the body and the irrational (carnal?) impulses of the soul are deprecated, while the rational soul (the engineer!) tends to use the body as an (imperfect) vehicle.
This all would seem to jibe with Proclus's division of the various aspects of existence, with body (the material part of the cosmos) being at the bottom and the intellect at the top, straining upwards toward celestial things.