 How Preplatonic Worlds Became Ensouled André Laks in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 00 Published in print: 0000 Published Online: January 0000 ISBN: 0000000000000 eISBN: 0000000000000 Item type: chapter Publisher: Oxford University Press DOI: 00.0000/oso/0000000000000.000.0000 Subject: Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy This article shows how two basic meanings of psuchē - namely, ‘breath' and ‘life' - may have helped Platonizing, or for that matter Stoicizing, doxographers in endowing various Preplatonic philosophers 