- 314 pages
- English
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About this book
First Published in 1940, this book which is written not so much for the philosopher as for the ordinary educated man, is an account of the idea of the soul. It attempts to answer two questions-a) what is the idea of the soul; and b) why has it become 'unwelcome'? The first question is answered by tracing the actual historical development of the idea- from early myths of the soul up to Renaissance philosophy. The second question is dealt with by considering the idea of the soul as it is affected by modern scientific ideas, particularly biological ideas.
The book discusses themes like the physical psyche; the natural philosophers; Socrates; the Platonic immaterial real; rebirth of philosophy and birth of Christianity; Neo- Pythagorean method of biology; Behaviourism and nature and the organism. This will be an interesting historical reference work for students of philosophy.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Original Title
- Original Copyright
- Dedication
- FOREWORD
- Contents
- I. The Physical Psyche. The Cult of the Soul
- II. Physis. The Nature Philosophers
- III. The Pythagorean and Ionian Conceptions of the Psyche
- IV. The Spiritual Psyche: Socrates
- V. The Spiritual Physis: the Platonic Immaterial Real
- VI. The Teleological Physis: the Aristotelian Entelechy
- VII. The Physical Logos: the Decline of Philosophy
- VIII. The Spiritual Logos: the Rebirth of Philosophy and the Birth of Christianity
- XI. The Christian Doctrine of Physis and Psyche: St. Augustine
- X. The First Renaissance of Platonism: the Carolingian Renaissance
- XI. The Second Renaissance of Platonism: the Italian Renaissance
- XII. The Para-Physical Psyche: the Neo-Pythagorean Philosophy of Descartes
- XIII. The Cartesian Traditions
- XIV. The Neo-Pythagorean Method of Biology
- XV. The Physical Schema of the Animal Psyche: the Conditioned Reflex
- XVI. The Physical Schema of the Human Psyche: Behaviourism
- XVII. The Drieschian Entelechy
- XVIII. The Physical Schema of Entelechy: Axial Gradients
- XIX. The Future of the Neo-Pythagorean Method
- XX. Physis, Psyche and Mechanism
- XXI. The Limitations of the Neo-Pythagorean Schema: ‘Philosophical' Behaviourism
- XXII. Nature and the Organism
- XXIII. Nature and Psyche
- INDEX