The Idea of the Soul: In Western Philosophy and Science

Author:   William Ellis
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   314
Publication Date:   19 January 2026
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Author:   William Ellis
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9781032880471


ISBN 10:   1032880473
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   19 January 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword 1. The Physical Psyche: The Cult of the Soul 2. Physis: The Nature Philosophers 3. The Pythagorean and Ionian Conceptions of the Psyche 4. The Spiritual Psyche: Socrates 5. The Spiritual Physis: The Platonic Immaterial Real 6. The Teleological Physis: The Aristotelian Entelechy 7. The Physical Logos: The Decline of Philosophy 8. The Spiritual Logos: The Rebirth of Philosophy and the Birth of Christianity 9. The Christian Doctrine of Physis and Psyche: St. Augustine 10. The First Renaissance of Platonism: The Carolingian Renaissance 11. The Second Renaissance of Platonism: The Italian Renaissance 12. The Para-Physical Psyche: The Neo-Pythagorean Philosophy of Descartes 13. The Cartesian Traditions 14. The Neo- Pythagorean Method of Biology 15. The Physical Schema of the Animal Psyche: The Conditioned Reflects 16. The Physical Schema of the Human Psyche: Behaviourism 17. The Drieschian Entelechy 18. The Physical Schema of Entelechy: Axial Gradients 19. The Future of the Neo- Pythagorean Method 20. Physis, Psyche and Mechanism 21. The Limitations of the Neo-Pythagorean Schema: Philosophical Behaviourism 22. Nature and the Organism 23. Nature and Psyche Index

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William Ellis (at the time of the first publication of this book) was Lecturer in Experimental Zoology, Liverpool University.

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