ABSTRACT
Life is the immediate Idea, or the Idea as its Notion not yet realized in its own self. The subjective Idea is in the first instance an urge. This urge is therefore the urge to truth in so far as truth is in cognition, accordingly to truth in its proper sense as theoretical Idea. The name soul was formerly employed for the individual finite spirit generally, and rational or empirical psychology was intended to be synonymous with doctrine of spirit. According to Plato, God, mindful that even the irrational part of the soul should partake of his bounty and share in higher things, gave to the liver the gift of prophecy above which self-conscious man is exalted. The difference between analytic and synthetic cognition stated in the form that one proceeds from the known to the unknown, the other from the unknown to the known.
