World Soul - Anima Mundi

Does the world or the cosmos have a soul or a mind? From Plato onwards, many philosophers considered the world a living, rational organism. Thus originated the influential idea that the structure of man and the cosmos are analogous (microcosm and macrocosm). This is the first collected volume on the world soul (anima mundi) in ancient thought, and it addresses fundamental questions about the relation of cosmology, psychology and theology.