In the history of twentieth-century art, we can identify two key moments when notion immaterial became a focus attention. The first, spanning period from mid-1960s to mid-1970s, was dematerialization art object in context conceptual famously described Lucy Lippard's Six Years: Dematerialization Art Object 1966 1972. second digital which likewise emerged 1960s, foregrounding use technological me...

In its heyday alchemy was a comprehensive theory of transmutation describing not only transformations of base into precious metals but also transformations of the soul up and down the great chain of being. Alchemy was not just a physics but also a metaphysics. Alchemy as metaphysics attracts interest to this day, as in Carl Jung's writings about the soul and personal identity. As he noted, "The...

Attribution theory has long enjoyed a prominent role in social psychological research, yet religious influences on attribution have not been well studied. We theorized and tested the hypothesis that Protestants would endorse internal attributions to a greater extent than would Catholics, because Protestantism focuses on the inward condition of the soul. In Study 1, Protestants made more interna...

In her article "Aesthetics in Gao's Soul Mountain" Mabel Lee analyses Nobel Laureate 2000 Xingjian Gao's aesthetics. Transnational conglomerates today control the book industry from publishing house to bookshop and through aggressive market strategies they exert considerable influence on readers. Nonetheless, there are writers who refuse to capitulate to market demands and seek only to actualiz...

As the introduction to this book states: "Few subjects have stimulated a more intensive intellectual interchange than the nature of the human soul and its relationship to the body" (p. 3). All thirteen chapters are published here for the first time. The first four examine the developing conceptualization of the soul and its relationship to the body as perceived by the Greeks. Much here is famil...

in this paper the most important arguments of muslim philosophers in supporting the createdness of the human soul are examined. we will criticize five arguments by some new objections and show that none of them is reliable and unquestionable. then we go through the most important views of exegetes on the nature of the world of pre-existence (the world of zarr) and criticize them. two of these v...