The soul, or, Rational psychology / Emanuel Swedenborg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swedenborg, Emanuel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mind and body.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 pages)

Edition:

Third revised edition.

Other Title:

soul or rational psychology

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : New Church Board of Publication, 1887.

Summary:

It has been my purpose studiously to investigate the nature of the soul and the body, and their intercourse; and also the state of the soul in the body, and its state after the life of the body. But in order to attain the end the means must also be sought; and while I was meditating in what way I might proceed, whither I should look, in what way I must direct my course as to the goal, I at length became aware that there is no other field of exploration than that of the anatomy of the organic body of the soul. For in this she disports herself and runs her course; and for what she is, in her own field, she must be inquired after in her own domain. I have pursued this anatomy solely for the purpose of discovering the soul. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

The simple fiber.

The senses

The intellect and action.

The sense of touch.

The sense of taste.

The sense of smell

The sense of hearing

The sense of sight.

Perception, imagination memory, and their ideas

The pure intellect.

The human intellect.

Of the intercourse of the soul and the body.

Of harmonies, and the affections thence originating, and of the desires in general.

Of the lower mind [animus], and its affections in particular.

Concerning the animus and the rational mind [mens].

Concerning the formation and the affections of the rational mind.

Conclusion as to what the animus is, what the spiritual mind, and what the rational mind

Free will, or the free choice of moral good and evil.

Will and its liberty and the intellect in regard thereto.

Discourse.

The spiritual loves, or the loves of the soul.

The influx of the animus and its affections into the body, and of the body into the animus.

The influx of the rational mind into the animus, and by means of the animus into the body; and the influx of the animus into the rational mind.

Influx of the spiritual mind or of the soul into the animus, and of the animus into the spiritual mind.

Inclinations and temperaments.

Concerning death.

Of the immortality of the soul.

Of the state of the soul after the death of the body.

Concerning heaven, or the society of happy souls

Concerning hell, or the society of unhappy souls

Concerning the divine providence.

The universal mathesis, or a mathematical philosophy of universals.

Notes:

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