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 (DIR) Post #ANf5edzImFcfvGr368 by DoctorLovequest@poa.st
       2022-09-17T17:04:40.529809Z
       
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       Plato didn't invent the tripartite anthropology (body/soul/spirit) found in the New Testament (1 Thess. 5:23 &c). It is attested in fragment B13 of the works of Philolaus of Croton, one of the most significant of the ancient Pythagoreans and a contemporary of Socrates and Democritus. Just how ancient is this view of man? Could there be such a thing as a "prisca theologia," or, at the very least, could there have been some small portion of lingering primordial tradition from which this and other views were drawn?