Xenophon tells us that Socrates never neglected the body and did not praise those who did. We can imagine that it was because the physical bodyvolatile, unseen, and implicated in an automatized natural worldcould seem so daemonic that entrusting life, both biological life and ethical life, to its dynamics could seem like ceding control of the human.

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