A Brief History of the Soul - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Brief History of the Soul write by Stewart Goetz. This book was released on 2011-05-18. A Brief History of the Soul available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a clear and concise history of the soul in western philosophy, from Plato to cutting-edge contemporary work in philosophy of mind. Packed with arguments for and against a range of different, historically significant philosophies of the soul Addresses the essential issues, including mind-body interaction, the causal closure of the physical world, and the philosophical implications of the brain sciences for the soul's existence Includes coverage of theories from key figures, such as Plato, Aquinas, Locke, Hume, and Descartes Unique in combining the history of ideas and the development of a powerful case for a non-reductionist, non-materialist account of the soul
A Cultural History of the Soul
A Cultural History of the Soul - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Cultural History of the Soul write by Kocku von Stuckrad. This book was released on 2022-02-15. A Cultural History of the Soul available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The soul, which dominated many intellectual debates at the beginning of the twentieth century, has virtually disappeared from the sciences and the humanities. Yet it is everywhere in popular culture—from holistic therapies and new spiritual practices to literature and film to ecological and political ideologies. Ignored by scholars, it is hiding in plain sight in a plethora of religious, psychological, environmental, and scientific movements. This book uncovers the history of the concept of the soul in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Beginning in fin de siècle Germany, Kocku von Stuckrad examines a fascination spanning philosophy, the sciences, the arts, and the study of religion, as well as occultism and spiritualism, against the backdrop of the emergence of experimental psychology. He then explores how and why the United States witnessed a flowering of ideas about the soul in popular culture and spirituality in the latter half of the century. Von Stuckrad examines an astonishingly wide range of figures and movements—ranging from Ernest Renan, Martin Buber, and Carl Gustav Jung to the Esalen Institute, deep ecology, and revivals of shamanism, animism, and paganism to Rachel Carson, Ursula K. Le Guin, and the Harry Potter franchise. Revealing how the soul remains central to a culture that is only seemingly secular, this book casts new light on the place of spirituality, religion, and metaphysics in Europe and North America today.
English Fragments
English Fragments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook English Fragments write by Martin Corless-Smith. This book was released on 2010. English Fragments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The final volume in a trilogy of alternate selves and alternate literary histories
The Natural History of the Soul in Ancient Mexico
The Natural History of the Soul in Ancient Mexico - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Natural History of the Soul in Ancient Mexico write by Jill Leslie McKeever Furst. This book was released on 1995-01-01. The Natural History of the Soul in Ancient Mexico available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A richly illustrated look at basic Precolumbian beliefs among ancient Mesoamerican peoples about life and death, body and soul. Drawing on linguistic, ethnographic, and iconographic sources, art historian Jill McKeever Furst argues that the Mexica turned not to mental or linguistic constructions for verifying ideas about the soul, but to what they experienced through the senses. 32 illustrations.
The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul
The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul write by Simona Ginsburg. This book was released on 2019-03-12. The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness. What marked the evolutionary transition from organisms that lacked consciousness to those with consciousness—to minimal subjective experiencing, or, as Aristotle described it, “the sensitive soul”? In this book, Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka propose a new theory about the origin of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in the transition to basic consciousness. Using a methodology similar to that used by scientists when they identified the transition from non-life to life, Ginsburg and Jablonka suggest a set of criteria, identify a marker for the transition to minimal consciousness, and explore the far-reaching biological, psychological, and philosophical implications. After presenting the historical, neurobiological, and philosophical foundations of their analysis, Ginsburg and Jablonka propose that the evolutionary marker of basic or minimal consciousness is a complex form of associative learning, which they term unlimited associative learning (UAL). UAL enables an organism to ascribe motivational value to a novel, compound, non-reflex-inducing stimulus or action, and use it as the basis for future learning. Associative learning, Ginsburg and Jablonka argue, drove the Cambrian explosion and its massive diversification of organisms. Finally, Ginsburg and Jablonka propose symbolic language as a similar type of marker for the evolutionary transition to human rationality—to Aristotle's “rational soul.”
