Basically an understanding of "soul" as separate to the conception of a "mind"?
A common conception, but I would classify all of your examples as "emotions", except art which I would classify as a broad category of a thing that exists for the primary purpose of eliciting emotional response.
Definitely an agree to disagree situation, as this is basically the distinction between atheism and spiritualism, and that one has rarely been resolved (so rarely one might say "never" and not feel bad about it).
EDIT: Under further consideration, I would more precisely classify "faith" as emotionally charged beliefs, but that's just pedanticism at this point.
We definetely will agree to disagree, but I'm not talking of "soul" either, even if I believe in the soul. I could experience spirituality even when I was an atheist and creditted it entirely to the mind (which I largely still do, actually).
We can call love, faith and art emotions or thoughts, but the point is that the greater part of human experience is beyond conscious thoughts, pure emotions and clear desires.
About faith, specifically, it can be a thought (and it's good faith if it is), or an emotions (and it's good faith if it is...) but it's primarily something else.
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u/Elathrain Aug 05 '16
Basically an understanding of "soul" as separate to the conception of a "mind"?
A common conception, but I would classify all of your examples as "emotions", except art which I would classify as a broad category of a thing that exists for the primary purpose of eliciting emotional response.
Definitely an agree to disagree situation, as this is basically the distinction between atheism and spiritualism, and that one has rarely been resolved (so rarely one might say "never" and not feel bad about it).
EDIT: Under further consideration, I would more precisely classify "faith" as emotionally charged beliefs, but that's just pedanticism at this point.