Anima Mundi: The Rise of the World Soul Theory in Modern German Philosophy
First affirmed by Plato, the concept of the world as a cosmic living being, possessed of a soul, gained great importance in the Stoic and Neo-Platonic philosophical schools. Several medieval philosophers displayed an interest in this theory of the world s
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Anima Mundi The Rise of the World Soul Theory in Modern German Philosophy
Miklós Vassányi Károli Gáspár University of the Hungarian Reformed Church
Miklós Vassányi Faculty of Arts Department of General Humanities Károli University of the Hungarian Reformed Church Hungary [email protected]
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Acknowledgments
The present study is a thoroughly revised version of the dissertation I wrote under the promotership of Professor Dr. Martin Moors and defended in September 2007 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Therefore, I reiterate all the acknowledgments I then made, as follows: I thank my parents who brought me up, supported me and bore me with patience. I thank my honorary parents, i.e., my parents-in-law, who have always helped me and my narrower family in every conceivable manner. I thank my promoter, Dr. Martin Moors, Professor of the Centrum voor Metafysica, for his scientific advice, patience, kindest assistance and trust throughout the project. I also thank him for providing the official financial support without which the tremendous amount of international interlibrary loans, photocopying and microfilming related to the project could never have been carried out. I thank the Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven for the five-year-long scholarship that made possible the entire research project. I thank Mr. Stefan Derouck of the Interbibliothecair Leenverkeer-office of the K.U.L. for his very accurate, fast and effective cooperation on the project, in getting copies of some of the most unreal books and microf
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