History of the Concept of Mind
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History of the Concept of Mind

Volume 1: Speculations About Soul, Mind and Spirit from Homer to Hume

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eBook - ePub

History of the Concept of Mind

Volume 1: Speculations About Soul, Mind and Spirit from Homer to Hume

About this book

In the 20th century theorists of mind were almost exclusively concerned with various versions of the materialist thesis, but prior to current debates accounts of soul and mind reveal an extraordinary richness and complexity which bear careful and impartial investigation. This book is the first single-authored, comprehensive work to examine the historical, linguistic and conceptual issues involved in exploring the basic features of the human mind - from its most remote origins to the beginning of the modern period. MacDonald traces the development of an armature of psychical concepts from the Old Testament and Homer's works to the 18th century advocacy of an empirical science of the mind. Along the way, detailed attention is paid to the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Epicurus, before turning to look at the New Testament, Neoplatonism, Augustine, Medieval Islam, Aquinas and Dante. Treatment of Renaissance theories is followed by an unusual (perhaps unique) chapter on the words "soul" and "mind" in English literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare; the story then rejoins the mainstream with analyses of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. Chapter-focused bibliographies.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781351563642
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Mind & Body in Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Chapter 1 Ancient Hebrew and Homeric Greek Life-Force
  8. Chapter 2 Plato, Aristotle and Hellenistic Thought
  9. Chapter 3 From the New Testament to St. Augustine
  10. Chapter 4 Medieval Islamic and Christian Ideas
  11. Chapter 5 Renaissance Platonism, Hermeticism and Other Heterodoxies
  12. Chapter 6 Mind and Soul in English from Chaucer to Shakespeare
  13. Chapter 7 The Triumph of Rationalist Concepts of Mind and Intellect
  14. Chapter 8 The Empiricists' Advocacy of Matter Designed for Thought
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index of Names
  17. Index of Subjects

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