THE BODY NEEDS THE SOUL FOR LIFE.
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Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
When Plato130 says that the soul is indivisible, he speaks absolutely. When he insists that she is divisible, it is always relatively (to the body). He does indeed say that she becomes divisible in the bodies, but not that she has become such. Let us now examine how, by her nature, the body needs the soul to live, and what necessity there is for the soul to be present in the entire body.