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Aither 32/2024 (International issue no. 12):4-41 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2025.002

Psyche and the Pre-Socratics

Tomá¹ Vítek
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences

The article explores the beginnings of the integration of the term psyche into Presocratic philosophy. The author’s main aim was to examine whether the traditional authorities with which the new use of psyche is usually associated would actually hold up in this role if the doxographic tradition is left aside. The Orphics and Pythagoreans, who are often regarded as the founders of the doctrine of immortal psyche in the 6th century BCE, could not have played this role because, on the one hand, it is not attested by authentic texts and, on the other hand, the historical development of the meanings of psyche contradicts it. This is also the case for Anaximenes, since the key fragment B 2 is almost certainly inauthentic and compiled from the ideas and terms of Diogenes of Apollonia.

Received: July 23, 2024; Revised: December 4, 2024; Accepted: February 11, 2025; Published: March 5, 2025  Show citation

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