Plato created this distinction, an abstraction from earlier diverse traditions on human anatomy and bodily functions, and from speculations on the nature of human beings, their world, and their ways of understanding it.
It does not seem to have struck anyone in Athens, that for all people, but especially Athenians, to have immortal souls, might be inconsistent with the piety required of Athenians for their gods.Maybe a well versed Plato scholar can correct this supposition if wrong.
It was, after all, partly for 'impiety' that Socrates had ostensibly been killed.
Phillip Cary, for the Teaching Company, has a nice talk on Plato's Metaphysics. They do great intros.
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