DISTINCTIONS IN "WE" AND THE "REAL MAN."

10. But if "we" are the "soul," we must admit that when we experience

passions, the soul experiences them also; that when we act, the soul

acts. We may even say that the common part is also "ours," especially

before philosophy separated the soul from the body;[308] in fact, we

even say "we" suffer, when our body suffers. "We" is, therefore, taken

in a double sense: either the soul with the animal part, or living

body; or simply the upper part; while the vivified body is a wild

beast.

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