Abstract
THE relation of soul to body is sometimes formulated as a “parallelism,” sometimes as “interaction,” and difference of theory depends, as a rule, on differences of standpoint. There is, however, another point of view in some ways more promising; it deals primarily with the organism as a whole, and posits the problem, “How must we conceive organisms which present the phenomena of purposive action?” The position is promising, because it appears free from the presuppositions involved in the direct question, How is mind related to body? but it really has an equally ambiguous element, because it involves placing on one scale forms of life which cannot be shown to possess the required continuous gradation. None the less, the method is interesting, and this book is an interesting example of it.
Die "Seele" als elementarer Naturfaktor. Studien über die Bewegungen der Organismen.
By Hans Driesch. Pp. vi + 97. (Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann; London: Williams and Norgate, 1903.) Price 1s. 9d.
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B., G. Die “Seele” als elementarer Naturfaktor Studien über die Bewegungen der Organismen . Nature 69, 197 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/069197a0
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