Psihologia filosofică și problema minte–corp la începutul secolului al XIX-lea (1800–1830)
Philosophical psychology and the mind–body problem at the beginning of the 19th century (1800–1830)

Summary/Abstract: In this paper we present and discuss the main Romanian attempts in philosophical psychology in the first decades of the 19th century, with a special focus on the mind–body problem. Whereas the issue of the relationship between the mind or soul and the body, comprising the existence or inexistence of the soul, its materiality or immateriality, its mortality or immortality etc. is discussed in sufficient detail by the authors of this epoch, the narrow mind–body problem, concerning the difficulty for a material thing and an immaterial thing to causally interact, is curiously underestimated and unsatisfactorily treated. We explain this by the interplay of a sensualist philo¬sophical outlook and a pre-modern, basically religion-informed, world-view. The re¬sult¬ing thought, we argue, misses the modern concept of Spirit, hence of mind as spiritual. Therefore, the narrow mind–body problem does not arise for it.

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