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Full Idea
The soul seems to be universally defined by three features, so to speak, the production of movement, perception and incorporeality.
Clarification
'Soul' is the Greek word 'psuché', which covers mind and consciousness and life
Gist of Idea
Mind involves movement, perception, incorporeality
Source
Aristotle (De Anima [c.329 BCE], 405b12)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'De Anima (On the Soul)', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,H.C. [Penguin 1986], p.136
A Reaction
'Incorporeality' begs the question, but its appearance is a phenomenon that needs explaining. 'Movement' is an interesting Greek view. Nowadays we would presumably added intentional states, and the contents and meaning of thoughts. No 'reason'?
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| 1714 | Mind involves movement, perception, incorporeality [Aristotle] |
| 20809 | Eight parts of the soul: five senses, seeds, speech and reason [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 23266 | The spirit in the soul wants freedom, power and honour [Galen] |
| 18453 | Intelligence is aware of itself, so the intelligence is both the thinker and the thought [Porphyry] |
| 17196 | The will is not a desire, but the faculty of affirming what is true or false [Spinoza] |
| 17198 | Will and intellect are the same thing [Spinoza] |
| 17201 | The will is finite, but the intellect is infinite [Spinoza] |
| 23242 | Consciousness has two parts, passively receiving sensation, and actively causing productions [Fichte] |
| 8648 | Ideas are not spatial, and don't have distances between them [Frege] |
| 2550 | Pain lacks intentionality; beliefs lack qualia [Rorty] |
| 3368 | Mind is basically qualities and intentionality, but how do they connect? [Kim] |
| 12636 | Mental states have causal powers [Fodor] |
| 6152 | Minds are rational, conscious, subjective, self-knowing, free, meaningful and self-aware [Rowlands] |