The Early Greek Concept of the Soul (Mythos)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: October 1, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780691101903
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Pre-Christian European & Mediterranean religions; History - General History; Religion; Ancient Greece; Ancient - Greece; History; Philosophy; Classics; History / Ancient / Greece; Mind, Body, Spirit; Religion / Antiquities & Archaeology; Religion-History; Religion-Philosophy; Antiquities & Archaeology
First sentence: MODERN SECULARIZATION has made the salvation of the soul a problem of diminishing importance, but the prominence in Western society of psychiatry and psychology shows that we still care for our psyche, for modern terms implies that the Greeks viewed the soul in the modern way.