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THE SENSE-POWER OF THE SOUL DEALS ONLY WITH EXTERIOR THINGS.

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
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2. Let us begin by a consideration of the soul. Does she possess self-consciousness? By what faculty? And how does she acquire it? It is natural for the sense-power to deal only with exterior objects; for even in the case in which it feels occurrences in the body, it is still perceiving things that are external to it, since it perceives passions experienced by the body over which it presides.99

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Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods, Project Gutenberg eBook #42933

A SIMPLE PRINCIPLE CAN HAVE SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS. FUNCTIONS OF THE DISCURSIVE REASON OF THE SOUL.