ABSTRACT
The philosopher deals with the subject of the relations between the soul and the body by putting from the very beginning a question. He wonders whether all the phenomena of the soul are common with those of the body, or if some of them are peculiar to and carried out solely by the soul. His final statement “because in all those conditions the body is concurrently somehow affected” is a laconic and clear explanation of the psychosomatic unity in which he believes. He even ends up by constructing a definition containing both the psychological and the somatic parameters. The essential conclusion of the whole syllogism lies in the phrase explaining that the mental activities do not belong to one constituent part but to a composite condition (tou koinou) of soul-and-body, a view which is in total agreement with the psychosomatic approach.
