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Abstract

The mind in the Greco-Latin tradition has been called by various terms: intellectus (nous, ennoia, dianoia, synnoia, noema, noesis, synesis), ratio (logos, logismos, syllogismos, logistikon), animus, anima, mens, (psyche, phren, phronema, phronesis, thymos, pneuma), conscientia (syneidesis, syneidos), sensus (aisthesis) and others. In the philosophical and theological tradition it was understood in a reistic manner, regardless of a close relation to the person. However, it must be taken as being absolutely incorporated in the person, and as incomprehensible without the person. One has to assume a kind of Chalcedonism here: psychical, empirical and material “nature” is translated into spiritual, transempiricial “nature” – and vice versa – in the person. The mind can exist act and only in the person as absolutizing subsistence, and above all in the man as a common dome for the corporal and spiritual sphere.