Mind
The power of thinking and understanding, and its relation to the brain and body.
Works to read
- Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, 1781 (revised 1787) · Great Books
- Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant, 1788 · Great Books
- Body and Mind by Henry Maudsley, 1870
- Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes, 1637 · Great Books
- The Journey of the Mind into God by Bonaventure, 1259
- Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego by Sigmund Freud, 1921 (English 1922) · Great Books
- Tales (Selection) by Edgar Allan Poe, 1839–1846
- Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1755 · Great Books
- A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume, 1739-1740
- Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton, 1908
- Regensburg Lecture by Benedict XVI, 2006
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke, 1689 · Great Books
Passages
From the texts
Whatever idea is in the mind, is, either an actual perception, or else, having been an actual perception, is so in the mind that, by the memory, it can be made an actual perception again.
— John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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