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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 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.

15.04.2025

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 some men err in r...