Greek · Neoplatonism
synaisthēsis
συναίσθησις
Heard as sin-ice-THAY-sis
- Period
- late antique, especially Plotinus
- Semantic range
- Co-perception, inner sense, the soul's awareness of its own states.
- What it can mean
- A sensing-with: the soul present to its own activity.
- What it should not be equated with
- Not the same lineage as syneidēsis. Not already the English word consciousness.
- Primary or early source
- Plotinus, Enneads, especially IV.4.
- Scholarly source
- Cudworth's reception; Leisinger; Thiel.
- Relation to other terms
- The sensing-with shore later translated by Cudworth as con-sense or consciousness.