For it is not only Spirits who punish the soul, the Soul brings itself to judgement:
Are the spirits referred to here a nod to the Erinyes, or is this referring to something in the Neoplatonist tradition?
Arthur Darby Nock notes that the soul punishes itself is a rhetorical commonplace. It's also near-universal in the literature of near-death experiences (Life After Life, by Raymond Moody, containing perhaps the archetypal example; but see the Myth of Er at the end of Plato's Republic for a counter-example).
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Date: 2022-03-09 01:24 pm (UTC)Are the spirits referred to here a nod to the Erinyes, or is this referring to something in the Neoplatonist tradition?
Arthur Darby Nock notes that the soul punishes itself is a rhetorical commonplace. It's also near-universal in the literature of near-death experiences (Life After Life, by Raymond Moody, containing perhaps the archetypal example; but see the Myth of Er at the end of Plato's Republic for a counter-example).