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He bless you, Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy Podcast, brought to you with the support of the philosophy department at King's College, London and the LMU in Munich, online at www. History of Philosophy.net. Today's episode, Stay in Alive, 13th Century Psychology.

Unlike Bill Clinton, George Clinton, who founded the 1970s Funk Band's Parliament and Funkadelic and is no relation

as far as I'm aware would probably have made a terrible scholastic philosopher.

A more natural place for Clinton in the history of philosophy would have been

late ancient Neoplatanism as we can see from the fact that Parliament recorded a song

called Everything is on the One. Still, Clinton had the appropriate qualifications to teach at a medieval university.

He did, after all, bear the title Dr. Funkenstein.

And it would have been a lot of fun to see the medieval arts masters devoting

a disputed question to the definitions offered in the 1970 Funkadelic song, What Is Soul?

We find in Aristotle that Soul is the form of the body that has life potentially, they might have said,

but to the contrary it is stated on the album Maggot brain that soul is a ham-hawk in your cornflakes. In fact, medieval theories of soul were never quite that

funky, but they are liable to strike us as odd nonetheless unless we have a thorough understanding of the sources that influence those

theories, which fortunately we do. As we've been seeing, 13th century philosophers had access

to an unprecedented range of texts, which came down to them from very different traditions.

Reading a treatise on the soul from the early part of this century can be a bit like attending a parliament

funkodelic concert. There are plenty of ideas on display, but the overall impression is rather chaotic.

One of the most sophisticated authors of the time was William of Overne. He wrote a lengthy treatise on soul, which tries to reconcile

traditional Augustinian ideas with material from Aristotle and Avicenna. One scholar has commented that the upshot is a quagmire of apparent

contradictions in exact analogies unfinished arguments and a capricious and inconsistent use of technical terms.

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