Monopsikhism (from the Greek monos is the only and psyche - the soul) is the teaching that individual souls are born and die not by themselves, but only under the influence from the outside, especially as a result of transformations of a single soul substance caused by material and physical reasons.
Monopsychism is also called the doctrine that the souls of people are not individual at all, but are manifestations of one single soul [1] . Similar ideas were developed by Plotinus in the development of the Platonic concept of the “world soul” [2] .
Monopsychism in various forms adhered to some Arab ( Averroes ) and Jewish ( Kabbalism ) mystical thinkers of the medieval era; later, through the European followers of Averroes (in particular, the 13th century French averroist Sieger Brabansky), he penetrated into Western philosophy.
Thomas Aquinas opposed the doctrine of monopsihism in his book De unitate intellectus contra Averroistas . [3]
See also
- Averroism
Notes
- ↑ P.Pomponazzi: the mortal soul in the presence of God
- ↑ Philosophical Anthropology - The Big Explanatory Dictionary of Cultural Studies. Kononenko B. And. 2003.
- ↑ Bandurovsky K.V. Criticism of Monopsihism by Thomas Aquinas // Bulletin of the Russian State Art Institute. - 2001. - No. 4.