Soul


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1 Conceptions of soul.
2 Soul as the ordering principle of the universe, the world soul and its relation to the intellectual principle, the souls of the heavenly bodies.
3 Soul as the principle of self-motion or life in living things, soul as the form of an organic body.
4 Soul as the principle of distinction between thinking and nonthinking beings, the identity or distinction between soul and mind or intellect.
5 Soul as the principle of personal identity, the doctrine of the self, the empirical and the transcendental ego.
6 The analysis of the powers of the soul.
7 The distinction between the soul and its powers or acts.
8 The order, connection, and interdependence of the parts of the soul, the id, ego, and superego in the structure of the psyche.
9 The kinds of soul and the modes of life, vegetative, sensitive, and rational souls and their special powers.
10 The vegetative powers, the powers proper to the plant soul.
11 The sensitive powers, the powers proper to the animal soul.
12 The rational powers, the powers proper to the human soul.
13 The immateriality of the soul.
14 The soul as an immaterial principle, form, or substance.
15 The immateriality of the human soul in comparison with the materiality of the plant and animal soul, the intellect as an incorporeal power.
16 The relation of soul and body, the relation of formal and material principles, or of spiritual and corporeal substances.
17 The denial of soul as an immaterial principle, form, or substance, the atomic theory of the soul.
18 The corporeal or phenomenal manifestation of disembodied souls as ghosts, wraiths, or spirits.
19 The being of the soul.
20 The unity or plurality of the human soul, the human mode of the vegetative and sensitive powers.
21 The issue concerning the self-substance or immortality of the human soul, its existence or capacity for existence in separation from the human body.
22 The origin of the human soul, its separate creation, its emanation or derivation from the world soul.
23 The life of the soul apart from the body/ The doctrine of transmigration or perpetual reincarnation.
24 Comparison of separated souls with men and angels, the external soul.
25 The need of the soul for its body, the dogma of the body's resurrection for the soul's perfection.
26 The contamination of the soul by the body, the purification of the soul by re-lease from the body.
27 Our knowledge of the soul and its powers.
28 The soul's knowledge of itself by reflection on its acts, the soul as a transcendental or noumenal object, the paralogisms of rational psychology.
29 The concept of the soul in empirical psychology, experimental knowledge of the soul.


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