In the various contributions to this volume, an attempt is made to do justice to the most diverse facets of the topic of emotionality and spirituality from an inter- and transdisciplinary perspective...
Show more In the various contributions to this volume, an attempt is made to do justice to the most diverse facets of the topic of emotionality and spirituality from an inter- and transdisciplinary perspective. According to the various contributions in this volume, the unity of body and mind is revealed in the experience of emotions and spirituality. Emotions color all our consciousnesses more than we are aware of. Without emotions, our world would be as cold and sterile as the world of computers and automata. Spiritual experience is further elaborated as a purely subjective phenomenon, intangible in its appearance. According to today's view, the term spirituality encompasses different facets: On the one hand a religious one, concerning the Christian way of life, where it enters into an opposition to the physical and forms with Paul a part of the three-step 'carnal-psychic-spiritual'. On the other hand, it also describes the attempt to fathom the modes of being and cognition of immaterial beings (in contrast to the physical or material). Finally, the so-called 'spiritualia', namely the functions and goods belonging to the church, form a legal contrast to the 'temporalia', the worldly goods. Spirituality thus also acquires a legal dimension. In its diversity, the concept becomes a link between body and soul, between the material and the immaterial. From the contents Hans Goller SJ: Emotions. Link between the Material and the Immaterial Wolf Langewitz: Psychosomatic Medicine. From Semiotics to New Phenomenology Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer: 'I would rather err with Plato'. Body and Soul in Roman Literature Heinrich Koller: Leib-Seele-Problem in Jurisprudence. A Contribution to the Image of Man in Law Georg Pfleiderer: Man as a 'Living Soul'. A theological run of hope Hans Landolt: Free access to the brain ... and where is the soul?..