Concept
Spirit (animating force)
Overview
philosophy and religious concept of the animating essence within humans
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But Christ alone brings with him the power and presence of the Holy Spirit, who sanctifies us through the blood and water issuing from the divine side. The Spirit makes us partakers of its cleansing influence through the external office of preaching and through the sacraments, which are called the office and gifts of the Holy Spirit. Through these the Spirit works in the Christian Church just as he did at first…
Martin Luther, Epistle Sermons, Vol. 2
The chapter “THE SPIRIT.” is titled for Spirit; names Spirit several times.
This formation and increase of spirit is rendered sensible by the diminution of weight; for in every desiccation something is lost in quantity, not only of the spirit previously existing in the body, but of the body itself, which was previously tangible, and has been recently changed, for the spirit itself has no weight. The departure or emission of spirit is rendered sensible in the rust of metals, and other…
Francis Bacon, Novum organum
Names Spirit several times; states what Spirit is.
A division is formed in the understanding of itself, and the Spirit is the unity of what is understood and the understanding person. The divine Spirit which is comprehended, is objective; the subjective Spirit comprehends. But Spirit is not passive, or else the passivity can be momentary only; there is one spiritual substantial unity. The subjective Spirit is the active, but the objective Spirit is itself this…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
Names Spirit several times; states what Spirit is.
Related ideas
- Ātman (Hinduism)
- Hellenistic Judaism
- Greek language
- Ghost
- Philosophy
- Animism
- Ancient Greek
- Vitalism
- Kabbalah
- Ancient Greek philosophy
- Latin
- Personality
- Life
- Geist
- Pneuma
- Anthropomorphism
- Stoicism
- Mind
- Angel
- Matter
- Philo
- New Testament
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Principia Mathematica
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of German philosophy.