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Definition of pneuma
1in theology : SOUL, SPIRITspecifically : HOLY SPIRIT 성령The adherents of these movements believe that the pneuma—Holy Spirit—plays a central role in their lives and their communities …— David Maxwell2in classical medicine : an invisible liquid or vapor held to travel throughout the body and to be necessary to and associated with lifePneuma, according to ancient Greeks and Romans, was a driving force in the body, necessary for maintaining bodily functions.— Judy Duchan3in Stoicism : a mixture of air and fire held to be the divine organizing principle of the universeOf the four elements, the Stoics identify two as active (fire and air) and two as passive (water and earth). The active elements, or at least the principles of hot and cold, combine to form breath or pneuma. Pneuma, in turn, is the 'sustaining cause' … of all existing bodies and guides the growth and development of animate bodies.— Dirk BaltzlyThe distinctive contribution of Stoicism, at any rate by the time of Chrysippus, was to extend the explanatory role of pneuma beyond individual animal life, and to make it the vital power of the world as a whole. … Pneuma is the vehicle of the divine 'reason' (logos) which pervades and governs the entire world …— David Sedley
Pneuma
Pneuma (πνεῦμα) is an ancient Greek word for "breath", and in a religious context for "spirit" or "soul".[1][2] It has various technical meanings for medical writers and philosophers of classical antiquity, particularly in regard to physiology, and is also used in Greek translations of ruach רוח in the Hebrew Bible, and in the Greek New Testament.
In classical philosophy, it is distinguishable from psyche (ψυχή), which originally meant "breath of life", but is regularly translated as "spirit" or most often "soul".[3]
Classical antiquity[edit]
Presocratics[edit]
Pneuma, "air in motion, breath, wind", is equivalent in the material monism of Anaximenes to aer (ἀήρ, "air") as the element from which all else originated. This usage is the earliest extant occurrence of the term in philosophy.[4] A quotation from Anaximenes observes that "just as our soul (psyche), being air (aer), holds us together, so do breath (pneuma) and air (aer) encompass the whole world." In this early usage, aer and pneuma are synonymous.[5]
Ancient Greek medical theory[edit]
In ancient Greek medicine, pneuma is the form of circulating air necessary for the systemic functioning of vital organs. It is the material that sustains consciousness in a body. According to Diocles and Praxagoras, the psychic pneuma mediates between the heart, regarded as the seat of Mind in some physiological theories of ancient medicine, and the brain.[6]
The disciples of Hippocrates explained the maintenance of vital heat to be the function of the breath within the organism. Around 300 BC, Praxagoras discovered the distinction between the arteries and the veins, although close studies of vascular anatomy had been ongoing since at least Diogenes of Apollonia. In the corpse arteries are empty; hence, in the light of these preconceptions they were declared to be vessels for conveying pneuma to the different parts of the body. A generation afterwards, Erasistratus made this the basis of a new theory of diseases and their treatment. The pneuma, inhaled from the outside air, rushes through the arteries till it reaches the various centres, especially the brain and the heart, and there causes thought and organic movement.[7]
Aristotle[edit]
The "connate pneuma" of Aristotle is the warm mobile "air" that in the sperm transmits the capacity for locomotion and certain sensations to the offspring. These movements derive from the soul of the parent and are embodied by the pneuma as a material substance in semen. Pneuma is necessary for life, and as in medical theory is involved with the "vital heat," but the Aristotelian pneuma is less precisely and thoroughly defined than that of the Stoics.[3]
Stoic pneuma[edit]
In Stoic philosophy, pneuma is the concept of the "breath of life," a mixture of the elements air (in motion) and fire (as warmth).[8] For the Stoics, pneuma is the active, generative principle that organizes both the individual and the cosmos.[9] In its highest form, pneuma constitutes the human soul (psychê), which is a fragment of the pneuma that is the soul of God (Zeus). As a force that structures matter, it exists even in inanimate objects.[10] In the foreword to his 1964 translation of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, Maxwell Staniforth writes:
Judaism and Christianity[edit]
Philo, a 1st-century Hellenistic Jewish philosopher, commented on the use of Πνοή, rather than πνευμα, in the Septuagint translation of Genesis 2:7. Philo explains that, in his view, pneuma is for the light breathing of human men while the stronger pnoē was used for the divine Spirit.[12]
In Judaic and Christian usage, pneuma is a common word for "spirit" in the Septuagint and the Greek New Testament. At John 3:5, for example, pneuma is the Greek word translated into English as "spirit": "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit (pneuma), he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." In some translations such as the King James version, however, pneuma is then translated as "wind" in verse eight, followed by the rendering "Spirit": "The wind (pneuma) bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit (pneuma)."
See also[edit]
- Pneuma akatharton, unclean spirit
- Pneuma journal, subtitled The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies
- Pneuma (song)
- Pneumatic (Gnosticism)
- Pneumatology
- Prana
- Qi
- Rūḥ
References[edit]
- ^ Entry πνεῦμα, in Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek–English Lexicon, online version.
- ^ See pp.190, 195, 205 of François, Alexandre (2008), "Semantic maps and the typology of colexification: Intertwining polysemous networks across languages", in Vanhove, Martine (ed.), From Polysemy to Semantic change: Towards a Typology of Lexical Semantic Associations, Studies in Language Companion Series, vol. 106, Amsterdam, New York: Benjamins, pp. 163–215.
- ^ ab Furley, D.J. (1999). From Aristotle to Augustine. History of Philosophy. Routledge. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-415-06002-8. LCCN 98008543.
- ^ Silvia Benso, "The Breathing of the Air: Presocratic Echoes in Levinas," in Levinas and the Ancients (Indiana University Press, 2008), p. 13.
- ^ Benso, "The Breathing of the Air," p. 14.
- ^ Philip J. van der Eijk, "The Heart, the Brain, the Blood and the pneuma: Hippocrates, Diocles and Aristotle on the Location of Cognitive Processes," in Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease (Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 131–132 et passim. ISBN 0-521-81800-1
- ^ public domain: Hicks, Robert Drew (1911). "Stoics". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 942–951. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ "Stoicism," Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Taylor & Francis, 1998), p. 145.
- ^ David Sedley, "Stoic Physics and Metaphysics," The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy, p. 388.
- ^ John Sellars, Stoicism (University of California Press, 2006), pp. 98-104.
- ^ Marcus Aurelius (1964). Meditations. London: Penguin Books. p. 25. ISBN 0-14044140-9.
- ^ Bromiley, Geoffrey William; Kittel, Gerhard (1967). Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8028-2247-5.
External links[edit]
- The dictionary definition of pneuma at Wiktionary
프네우마
영어 위키낱말사전에 관련된 항목이 있습니다. |
프뉴마(πνεύμα Pneuma[*])는 "숨 · 호흡"을 의미하는 고대 그리스어 단어이다.[1]
종교적 문맥에서 프네우마는 에센스(essence·스피릿), 영(spirit·스피릿·정신) 또는 영혼(soul)을 뜻한다.
이러한 일반적인 종교적 문맥의 의미 외에도 프네우마는 고대 철학자들과 의학자들에 의해 여러 다른 전문적인 의미로도 사용되었다.
철학 및 의학[편집]
종교적 문맥의 의미 외에 프네우마는 고대 철학자들과 의학자들에 의해 다음과 같은 여러 전문적인 의미로도 사용되었다.
- 운동 상태의 공기, 숨, 바람:
아낙시메네스가 만물의 근원이라고 생각한 "공기"(ἀήρ·aer·아에르·air)와 동일한 의미이다. 프네우마의 현존하는 용법 중 가장 오래된 것이다.
- 아리스토텔레스의 동생(同生) 프네우마:
정자 안에 있는 운동 상태의 따뜻한 공기(air)로 후손에게 운동 능력과 특정한 감각들을 전달한다. 참고: 생체열•호흡열(Vital heat), 아리스토텔레스의 자연발생설(Spontaneous generation), 아리스토텔레스의 《호흡에 대하여(On Breath)》
유대교와 기독교[편집]
유대교와 기독교에서 프네우마는 70인역 구약 성경과 그리스 신약 성경에서 일반적으로 "영(spirit)"을 의미하는 용법으로 사용되고 있다. 이외에 프네우마는 유대교 · 기독교 · 나스티시즘에서 다음과 같은 용법으로 사용되고 있다.
- 기독교 성령론(Pneumatology)의 프네우마:
프네우마는 성부·성자·성령의 삼위일체 중 성령(Holy Spirit)을 뜻한다.
- 나스티시즘의 뉴매틱스(Pneumatics):
나스티시즘에서 구분한 세 부류의 사람 중 영적인 사람을 뜻한다.
- 프네우마 아카타르톤(pneuma akatharton):
프네우마는 악령·귀신을 가리키는 용도로도 사용된다. 프네우마 아카타르톤은 영어 성경의 경우 KJV, NASB, YLT에서는 "unclean spirit"으로 번역되어 있으며 NIV에서는 "evil spirit"으로 번역되어 있다.[2] 한글 성경의 경우, 공동번역에서는 "더러운 악령", 가톨릭성경에서는 "더러운 영", 개역한글에서는 "더러운 귀신", 표준새번역에서는 "악한 귀신"으로 번역되어 있다.[3]
NASB에서 프네우마는
- 숨(breath)의 의미로 3회,
- 하느님의 영 또는 성령(Spirit)의 의미로 241회,
- 영 또는 악령(spirit)의 의미로 101회,
- 악령들 또는 귀신들(spirits)의 의미로 32회,
- 영성(spiritual)의 의미로 1회,
- 바람(wind)의 의미로 1회,
- 바람들(winds)의 의미로 1회 번역되어 있다.[1]
같이 보기[편집]
각주[편집]
- ↑ 가나 스트롱 색인 번호 #4151: pneuma. 2010년 12월 9일에 확인.
- ↑ 누가복음 11:24의 영문 번역 병행판, Biblos.com. 2010년 12월 10일에 확인.
- ↑ 누가복음 11:24 등
プネウマ
プネウマ(古代ギリシア語: πνεῦμα, pneuma)とは、気息、風、空気、大いなるものの息、ギリシア哲学では存在の原理[1]、呼吸、生命、命の呼吸、力、エネルギー、聖なる呼吸、聖なる権力、精神、超自然的な存在、善の天使、悪魔、悪霊、聖霊などを意味する[2]。動詞「吹く」(希: πνέω)を語源とする。ラテン語でスピリトゥス、そこから英語でのスピリットとなった。
キリスト教でも使われ、日本では「聖霊」[3]、日本ハリストス正教会では「神(しん)」と訳す。
ギリシア哲学[編集]
プネウマ (pneuma) はもともと気息、風、空気を意味したが、ギリシア哲学では存在の原理とされた[1]。
アナクシメネスは万物の根源、宇宙全体を包括している物質とした。
空気中のプネウマ(精気、空気、気息)が体内に取り込まれ生体を活気づけるとヒポクラテスらは考え、アリストテレスは植物プシュケー、動物プシュケー、理性プシュケーの3種のプシュケー(精気)を区別し、ローマのガレノスも肝臓にある自然精気、心臓にある生命精気 (pneuma zoticon) 、脳にある動物精気 (pneuma physicon) の3つを考えた[4]。
アリストテレスやガレノスのプシュケー(精気)をスピリトゥスとして標記する研究もある[5]。
脚注[編集]
- ^ a b 世界大百科事典「息」
- ^ François, Alexandre "Semantic maps and the typology of colexification: Intertwining polysemous networks across languages", in Vanhove, Martine, From Polysemy to Semantic change: Towards a Typology of Lexical Semantic Associations, Studies in Language Companion Series 106, Amsterdam, New York: Benjamins, 2008年, p. 195
- ^ 大辞泉、小学館
- ^ 世界大百科事典「呼吸」
- ^ 比留間亮平「ルネサンスにおけるスピリトゥス概念と生命論」死生学研究. 第7号, 2006.3.25, pp. 139-164,東京大学グローバルCOEプログラム「死生学の展開と組織化」
参考文献[編集]
- 川田殖「古代ギリシア人の生命観 : 原初時代からプラトンまで」『山梨医科大学紀要』第2巻、1985年、 29-40頁。