Sentence examples for function of the soul from inspiring English sources

This transcendental function of the soul allows Albert to focus on what he believes is the essence of the soul — the human intellect.

First, similarly to Leibniz, Wolff believes the principal function of the soul is found in its power to "represent" (i.e., form thoughts about things).

In contrast to Leibniz, who maintains that the human soul is self-contained (or windowless), Wolff believes that the power to represent is a function of the soul and the way the soul is able to interact with its reality.

There were philosophers then, as there probably always will be, who wanted to argue that the intellect was a function of the soul, having no existence outside of the soul.

Kant describes the function he had in mind as "a blind but indispensable function of the soul" (A78=B103), so he meant something rather different from what we now mean by the term 'imagination' (A120 and fn).

After considering the emotional and irrational (instinctive) functions of the soul, termed involuntary passions, Nemesius concludes with a study of human will.

The principle had its origin in a theory that classified mental and spiritual life in terms of functions of the soul: knowing, feeling, hungering, reasoning, and doing.

It is a matter of vocabulary whether one considers the mesencephalic tegmentum either as being involved in generating a "capacity for consciousness" or as preparing the brain for the exercise of what Descartes would have considered the "functions of the soul" (volition, cognition, and reason).

Rather, he says, those who do not train the soul cannot carry out the functions of the soul (I.ii.19-20 .19-20

In the first place, passions are simply those "functions" of the soul that are not actions: namely, perceptions.

Internal faculties now become shadows (or functions) of the soul, lumped together into a single faculty responsible for representation.