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Renaissance & Early Modern

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Renewed interest in Platonism and Hermetic soul cosmologies.

Descartes: radical dualism—soul (res cogitans) and body (res extensa).

Human soul seen as seat of reason, will, and self-consciousness.

Debates emerge over animal souls and mechanistic bodies.

Mystical and esoteric views on soul persisted alongside rationalism.

Soul increasingly tied to the concept of personhood.

Ancestors (2 superordinated paths)

Descendants (at least 2 branches originate here)

  • Renaissance & Early Modern
    Renewed interest in Platonism and Hermetic soul cosmologies. Descartes: radical dualism—soul (res cogitans) and body (res extensa). Human soul seen as sea
    • is_parent Cogito ergo sum 🔒 ·
      "Accordingly, seeing that our senses sometimes deceive us, I was willing to suppose that there existed nothing really such as they presented to us; And because