THE PROBLEM OF THE SOUL IN ARISTOTLE’S De anima
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Life and death, generation and corruption are obviously universal experiences of mankind. Man had to deal with these phenomena and search for psychological accommodation to the objective facts. Man, however, has tremendous capacity for imagination and wonder -so it is easy to let our imagination err in the gray zone, especially when it seeks to satisfy our deepest desires. Thus the notions of the soul as well as of God have mythological origins (1) and the fact that they survived in religions which are professed in the 20th century does not make them less mythical in the least.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000