The Soul or Rational Psychology by Emanuel Swedenborg audiobook.
Genre: philosophy
In The Soul, or Rational Psychology, Emanuel Swedenborg brings the mind of an 18th-century scientist to one of humanity's oldest questions: what is the soul, and how does it work within a living person? Writing before his later visionary theological works, Swedenborg sets out to build a rational account of the soul's nature, its relationship to the body, and the inner machinery of human life - sensation, imagination, memory, understanding, and will. Moving between careful observation, philosophical argument, and the anatomical knowledge of his era, he challenges the listener to consider whether thought and feeling can be reduced to matter alone, or whether a deeper principle must be admitted to explain consciousness, freedom, and moral responsibility. Along the way, Swedenborg explores how the soul communicates with the senses, how the mind forms ideas from experience, and how a person can be both a physical organism and a self-aware agent. Dense, ambitious, and often surprisingly modern in its aims, this work is a rigorous invitation to follow reason as far as it can go in the search for the soul.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:48:30) Chapter 02
(00:52:04) Chapter 03
(00:56:29) Chapter 04
(01:16:05) Chapter 05
(01:25:11) Chapter 06
(01:32:58) Chapter 07
(01:53:49) Chapter 08
(02:22:50) Chapter 09
(02:35:49) Chapter 10
(02:43:53) Chapter 11
(02:57:03) Chapter 12
(03:17:01) Chapter 13
(03:39:38) Chapter 14
(04:01:54) Chapter 15
(04:28:07) Chapter 16
(04:56:19) Chapter 17
(05:22:50) Chapter 18
(05:37:12) Chapter 19
(05:58:25) Chapter 20
(06:20:07) Chapter 21
(06:40:12) Chapter 22
(07:05:02) Chapter 23
(07:32:17) Chapter 24
(07:53:21) Chapter 25
(08:12:25) Chapter 26
(08:39:20) Chapter 27
(09:00:41) Chapter 28
(09:18:56) Chapter 29
(09:41:42) Chapter 30
(09:49:46) Chapter 31
(10:10:05) Chapter 32
(10:30:31) Chapter 33
(10:54:44) Chapter 34
(11:23:53) Chapter 35
(12:01:12) Chapter 36
(12:26:40) Chapter 37
(12:46:36) Chapter 38
(12:57:54) Chapter 39
(13:04:03) Chapter 40
(13:10:46) Chapter 41
(13:20:51) Chapter 42
(13:34:22) Chapter 43
(13:51:38) Chapter 44
(14:05:52) Chapter 45
(14:23:45) Chapter 46
(14:40:21) Chapter 47
(14:48:20) Chapter 48
(15:05:38) Chapter 49
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