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DENIZ MACHIN, Deyvis. Soul or about self-palpating along with the world: Cosmobiology and cognitive faculties in Zeno of Citium. EPISTEME [online]. 2016, vol.36, n.2, pp.67-98. ISSN 0798-4324.

Life is life and death is death. At first glance such a claim seems to be either a basic exercise of Parmenidean logic, devoid, admittedly, of certain relevant meaning, even if at least were short of any contradiction or, rather the contrary, it be just one which were in search of the Cynic parrhesia, i. e., frankness in speech by naming things by its name. At any rate, the very fact of verifying that, such as Epicurus pointed out, when the former is present the latter is thus absent, beyond any room for doubt it should have a soothing effect, in spite of, for instance, Heraclitus, who would have gloomily insisted on regarding as absolutely dead whatever seen while we are awake, and notwithstanding even Plato, to whom philosophy is not but a preparation for death. One thing is for sure, soul, from Pitagoras onwards, is synonym of life and thus an antonym of death. All the same, no one but Aristotle was who attained to provide it with defined zoobiological considerations. The present paper, devoted to survey the notion of ‘embodied-soul’ that was endorsed by Zeno of Citium, scil. a body among bodies capable of palpating-itself, aims to illustrate how, on the one hand, by virtue of a corporeal theory of the notion of cause he did advocate for a pan-pneumatic cosmobiology under which living coherently according to nature turns out to be the telos and how, in seeking out attaining the wise man, personal identity, on the other, was circumscribed by the progressive conjuncture of cognitive faculties which has the heart as their hegemonikon.

Palavras-chave : embodied-soul; pneuma; cognitive faculties.

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