ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to talk about the problem of the relation between body, mind and values. In a similar way as the conception of matter is introduced to account for persistency in the things of outside experience in perception, a corresponding persistent entity or substance, mind, is introduced for persistencies in the realm of inner or subjective experience. The concept of mind was reasonably well-defined so long as mind could be identified with consciousness; and this is actually expressed in Descartes’ concept of the res cogitans. The old distinction of body, mind and spirit hints in the same direction; so does the biblical and mystical trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Again, there is Hegel’s objective, subjective, and absolute spirit, or more recently Teilhard de Chardin’s so-called lithosphere, biosphere and noosphere.
