Main description: The volume presents essays on the philosophical explanation of the relationship between body and soul in antiquity from the Presocratics to Galen, including papers on Parmenides on thinking (E. Hussey, R. Dilcher), Empedocles' Love (D. O'Brien), tripartition in…
The Sciences of the Soul" is the first attempt to explain the development of the disciplinary conception of psychology from its appearance in the late sixteenth century to its redefinition at the end of the seventeenth and its emergence as an institutionalized field in the eight…
Die außerordentliche Bedeutung des Neuplatonismus für Hegels Denken steht heute außer Frage. Was jedoch trotz auffälliger Gemeinsamkeiten bisher unterblieb, ist eine Deutung von Hegels Philosophie des subjektiven Geistes, die die Seelenlehre von Plotin und Proklos voraussetzt. D…
Das Konzept der Archetypen und des Kollektiven Unbewussten stellt den Kern der Analytischen Psychologie C.G. Jungs dar. Das Buch fasst erstmals in einem Überblick die klassische Theorie der Archetypen und der archetypischen Stationen des Individuationsprozesses bei Jung und sein…
"The Psychic Home: Psychoanalysis, Consciousness and the Human Soul develops, from a number of different viewpoints, the significance of home in our lives. Roger Kennedy puts forward the central role of what he has termed a 'psychic home' as a vital psychic structure, which gath…
"This book explores conceptions of the soul and the afterlife that are consistent with the findings of modern science. Many possible afterlives are examined, including physical resurrection (whether supernatural, biological or cybernetic in form), reincarnation, participation in…
This volume deals with books II and III of the On the Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato by the medical scientist and philosopher Galen of Pergamum (129-C.210 C.E.). In these books Galen offers an extensive critique of Stoic psychology, quoting a large number of passages from th…
"The test illustrates the importance of the concept of mind in defining what it is to be human; this unifies the discussion and analysis of specific topics. Having outlined the major traditional accounts of the nature of the mind in Western philosophy, the book goes on to examin…
Key Concepts in Philosophy is a series of concise, accessible and engaging introductions to the core ideas and subjects encountered in the study of philosophy. Specially written to meet the needs of students and those with an interest in, but little prior knowledge of, philosoph…
