In his treatise »On the soul» Aristotle made a number ofthoughts, have not lost their relevance for today's psychology. In particular, the idea of ​​the soul (psyche) and body (soma). They - and therefore the integrity are inseparable from one another as the form and matter. The soul can not be separated from the organic life and is its organizing principle. The body - a set of tools of the soul; soul - the essence of the body.

The idea of ​​the human soul deservesspecial attention. The soul consists of three entities: plant, animal and poetic or artistic. The first characteristic of the plants, but has no sense organs or organ regulating movements. The second - an animal - has differentiated organs of perception and movement in space. The third - a poetic, mental - belongs only to the person. Together, they are in the system and are associated with various functions of the human soul.

Natural vegetable vocation of the human soul -transform inanimate a living: to perceive energy and information, mineral and edible substances; Animals - to preserve the harmony of nature and live in comfort; human - poetic, intelligent and creative - create yourself in harmony with nature. Because the nature with the mediation of the poetic soul of man makes a living in the spiritual - spirituality, happiness will - to the top of the human life. They achieved huge effort, patience, wisdom and self-restraint. And those who visited these vertices can say, did not live in vain.

So, the idea of ​​the soul is that threethe function of the human soul - the successive forms of its development, three levels of life that does not always depend on the person's age. But at every stage of development of the soul of its functions are transformed under the scheme:

sensitivity - ability - the mechanism