[MD] What is SOM?

[Krimel]

[Bo]
There are surely more S/O derivatives, Mind/body, mental/ 
corporeal, abstract/concrete and the said symbol/what's 
symbolized are obvious. 

[Krimel]
I would say the Greek contribution was more along the abstract/concrete
continuum. They appreciated the contribution of mathematical idealization so
much that it led them to devalue the actual messy world of the concrete.

[Bo]
One more subtle is nurture/nature but as 
we know, these two never agrees on who determines mankind, so 
it's typical S/O. 

[Krimel]
Nature sets the range of possibility. Nurture provides that stage. 

[Bo]
"Soul" was Greece's contribution to Judaism that 
constituted Christianity so soul/body is another dichotomy. 

[Krimel]
Greek influence on Judaism at least insofar as it is expressed in the Jewish
cannon is non-existence. The Jewish scriptures were all written prior to
Alexander's spreading of Hellenism.  The Jews heard the idea of a 'soul'
from the Egyptians, Babylonians and Assyrians but they did not seem to make
much of it.

[Bo]
SOM has had an enormous influence on Western philosophy by 
creating the problem (all western thinking are footnotes to Plato 
they say) and has coloured all "solutions". 

[Krimel]
That bit of self serving hyperbola comes from the Platonist Whitehead. Neat
guy and widely quoted but to be taken with a grain of salt.