The body distracts your soul.

Adamson feels that drug developers are unreasonably concerned about rare events. The reality is children tolerate phase I therapy new agents being tested to find the best dosage and possible side-effects as well as or better than adults, ... Once the initial studies are done that is, phase I trials in adults study should begin in children.

This condition of uncertainty and unrest in the Roman Empire might explain why at Plotinus' philosophy encourages us to sort of flee from the physical world and towards the world of ideas.

We do each have an intellect but there's a universal intellect which is the same for everybody, as it were. And this single intellect is grasping the platonic forms.

This is in a way the most important thing about soul is that it's a kind of principle which mediates between the universal intellect and the material world.

If you think about for example, proportionality and beauty, things like that, these seem to be some kind of representations of a kind of unity.

Assuming there is an intellect, we're clearly not this universal intellect or we would know it. So that's one function of soul.