Talk:Anima mundi

message: Sri Aurobindo(Indian mystic) also mentions the world spirit,
the human soul embodying something within it to in its aim reach to the spirit beyond...Domsta333 (talk) 13:39, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Sri Aurobindo

message: Can Anima mundi also apply for Pantheism? Nohjo (talk) 23:03, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Pantheism

message: Is it correct to use this without the definite article in Greek, as given in the article? Wouldn't "ψυχὴ κόσμου" mean "soul of a world" rather than "the world's soul"? -- 194.39.218.10 (talk) 10:11, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:   ψυχὴ κόσμου or  ψυχὴ του κόσμου 

message: I don't know why The Police are mentioned, but I believe Spiritus Mundi was coined by Yeats, or at least features prominently in "The Second Coming". 138.229.135.211 (talk) 08:37, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Spiritus Mundi

message: I added a new section ("Process Theology") to this stub article, with the following text:
The concept of world soul plays an important role in process theology, particularly in the works of Charles Hartshorne.Viney, Donald Wayne. "Charles Hartshorne: A Biography." In American Philosophers Before 1950, edited by Philip Breed Dematteis and Leemon B McHenry. Vol. 270 of Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale Group, 2003. Published online by Harvard Square Library, https://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/charles-hartshorne-return-to-harvard/ ISBN 9780787660147 OCLC 845535631 ("In Adventures of Ideas (1933) Whitehead objects to the Platonic World-Soul analogy as the parent of 'puerile metaphysics.' According to this analogy, God is related to the world somewhat as a person is related to his or her body. Hartshorne, on the contrary, enthusiastically embraced the analogy and claimed in 'The Philosopher Replies' in The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne that Whitehead rejected it for 'weak reasons'.")
Epinoia reverted (diff) because "the articles on process theology and Charles Hartshorne do not mention "world soul", so possibly not an important concept - the single source for this is a work from 1933 (WP:AGE MATTERS) and perhaps gives undue weight (WP:UNDUE) to a minority position and a single source - perhaps add See Also links to process theology and Charles Hartshorne rather than an article section".
I disagree with the revert for the following reasons:
(a) The fact that the start-class article Process Theology does not include the term "world soul" does not mean the concept is unimportant. 
(b) The book I cited was published in 2003, not 1933.
(c) And here is the reference that Viney mentioned in that 2003 book.Hartshorne, Charles. "The Philosopher Replies". In The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne, edited by Lewis Edwin Hahn. Vol. 20 of Library of Living Philosophers. La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1991.  ("But Hartshorne has taken the World-Soul as a clue for present philosophizing. For example ...."). OCLC 23253757 ISBN 9780812691474
Having defended my viewpoint, this is not a big deal for me as I was just trying to add a little to a stub article. So I will leave it to others to decide what to add or not add to the Anima mundi article.   - Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) (I'm a man—traditional male pronouns are fine.) 15:38, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Process Theology