anima

Noun

(chiefly philosophy) The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus.

Japanese Meaning

（主に哲学）生き物の魂または生命を動かす原動力、特に男性的な原理（animus）と対比される側面としての精神や生命力を指す

What is this buttons?

Even the most rational philosopher acknowledged that beneath reason there lingered an anima that guided moral intuition.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

最も理性的な哲学者でさえ、理性の下には道徳的直観を導く魂が潜んでいると認めた。

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Sense（1）

(chiefly philosophy) The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus.

[W]e cannot chuse but admire the exceeding vividness of the governing faculty or Anima of the Insect, which is able to dispose and regulate so the motive faculties, as to cause every peculiar organ, not onely to move or act so quick, but to do it also so regularly.

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