Epicurus combined the project of explaining human psychology with a commitment to the claim that ‘totality of things is body and void.’ •	What he says about psuche is directly intended to show that his atomic theory is capable of explaining such complex phenomena as perception, thought and action. •	What he says about psuche directly supports his psychological theory and Ethics tradition.
-it is impossible to think of the incorporeal per se except as void. And void can neither act nor be acted upon, but merely provides bodies with motion through itself.
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