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Chapter IV: Book IV: Of the overflowing of the Nile, 160. Of the soul, 161

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Whether the soul be a body, and what is its nature and essence,
162. Of the parts of the soul, 162. What is the principal part of
the soul, and in what part of the body does it reside? 163. Of the
motion of the soul, 163. Of the soul’s immortality, 164. Of the
senses, and their objects, 164. Whether what appears to our senses
and imaginations be realities, 165. How many senses are there? 165.
How the conceptions of the mind are received from the senses, 166.
What is the difference between imagination (φαντασία), imaginable
(φανταστόν), fancy (φανταστικόν), and phantom (φάντασμα)? 167. Of our
sight, and by what means we see, 168. Of the images presented to the
eye in mirrors, 169. Can darkness be visible to us? 169. Of hearing,
170. Of smelling, 170. Of taste, 170. Of the voice, 171. Whether the
voice is incorporeal? what is it that gives the echo? 172. By what
means the soul is sensible, 173. Of respiration or breathing, 173. Of
the passions of the body, and whether the soul sympathizes? 175.

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Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 3 (of 5)Chapter IV: Book IV: Of the overflowing of the Nile, 160. Of the soul, 161

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