The Greeks, the Soul, the Spirit

[Unveiled Artist]

I thought this was a pretty interesting way to define soul and spirit according to the Greeks. It's in the first three paragraphs. Maybe philosophy is a better way to look at definitions like soul, spirit, et cetera. I'm sure there are variations of this across different religions.

... "The spirit is breath, and the Greek word is pneuma. The soul is life, and the Greek word is psyche. The mind is understanding, and the Greek word is nous. Natural confusion exists between the spirit and the soul since both words, in their roots, mean breath. But for the Greeks, there were two kinds of breath: the kind necessary for life, the pneuma, and the kind necessary for love, lust, and relationships to the self and others, the psyche.

In modern English, we might distinguish the two as life and energy. Spirit, Soul and Mind..."

"Why did the Greeks emphasize these three aspects of human experience: life, energy, and understanding?"

 

[PureX]

It seems as though they were breaking it all down to 'being', 'wanting', and 'experience'. To exist, to act on that existence, and to learn from it. Those Greeks were clever folks.

 

[syo]

"Why did the Greeks emphasize these three aspects of human experience: life, energy, and understanding?"

Emphasize? They just said what they saw. Pneuma, psyche and nous, everyone has. Unity. That's all.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Emphasize? They just said what they saw. Pneuma, psyche and nous, everyone has. Unity. That's all.

I don't know. That's what it said in the website. It runs in context; so, I didn't really question it.

 

[DagonVarunaMitraApolloZan]

were my many links that I posted earlier at all helpful in this study?