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The physician of the soul.

Before he heals character, Maimonides says, the physician of the soul must know the soul, as the doctor of the body knows the body. He names its five powers and what each does, and the Introduction tells you why a commentary on the Mishnah stops to teach it.

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הפרק הראשון - בנפש האדם וכוחותיה דע, כי נפש האדם נפש אחת, ולה פעולות רבות חלוקות, ייקראו קצת הפעולות ההן 'נפשות'. ויחשב בעבור זה, שיש לאדם נפשות רבות, כמו שחושבים הרופאים, עד שפתח ראש הרופאים ואמר, שהנפשות שלוש: טבעית, וחיונית, ונפשית. ופעמים ייקראו 'כוחות' ו'חלקים', עד שיאמר: 'חלקי הנפש', וזה השם ישתמשו בו הפילוסופים הרבה. ואינם מתכוונים באומרם 'חלקי', שהיא מתחלקת כהיחלק הגופות, ואמנם הם מונים פעולותיה החלוקות, אשר הן לכלל הנפש - כחלקים לכל המחובר מהחלקים ההם.

Know that the human soul is one, but that it has many diversified activities. Some of these activities have, indeed, been called souls, which has given rise to the opinion that man has many souls, as was the belief of the physicians, with the result that the most distinguished of them states in the introduction of his book that there are three souls, the physical, the vital, and the psychical.

Know that the human soul is one soul, and it has many different functions. Some of these functions are called "souls." Because of this, it is thought that man has many souls, as the physicians believe, until the chief of physicians declared that there are three souls: natural, vital, and psychic.

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  1. The IntroductionIntroductionFree
  2. Chapter IOn the Human Soul and Its PowersFree
  3. Chapter IIOn the Transgressions of the Soul's Powers, and the Seat of the Virtues and VicesBeing set
  4. Chapter IIIOn the Diseases of the SoulBeing set
  5. Chapter IVOn the Cure of the Diseases of the SoulBeing set
  6. Chapter VOn Directing the Soul's Powers to a Single GoalBeing set
  7. Chapter VIOn the Saintly Man and the Man of Self-RestraintBeing set
  8. Chapter VIIOn the Barriers Between God and ManBeing set
  9. Chapter VIIIOn the Natural Disposition of ManBeing set

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