History of the Concept of Mind
Subtitle: Speculations About Soul, Mind, and Spirit from Homer to Hume
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780754613657
Subjects: Ancient Western philosophy to c 500; History of ideas, intellectual history; Islamic & Arabic philosophy; Philosophy of mind; Western philosophy, c 1600 to c 1800; Western philosophy, c 500 to c 1600; Philosophy; Movements - Humanism; Mind & Body
First sentence: The history of the concepts of mind and soul is a complex and twisted network of many paths, each path strewn with obstacles, dead ends, false or hidden beginnings, relapses into old ways of thinking and forward leaps of imaginative projection.