Self vs. Soul — What's the Difference?

The self is an individual person as the object of its own reflective consciousness. Since the self is a reference by a subject to the same subject, this reference is necessarily subjective.

In many religious, philosophical, and mythological traditions, the soul is the incorporeal essence of a living being. Soul or psyche (Ancient Greek: ψυχή psykhḗ, of ψύχειν psýkhein, "to breathe", cf.

A person's essential being that distinguishes them from others, especially considered as the object of introspection or reflexive action

The spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal.

(of a trimming or cover) of the same material and colour as the rest of the item

Emotional or intellectual energy or intensity, especially as revealed in a work of art or an artistic performance

Self-pollinate; self-fertilize

The essence or embodiment of a specified quality

The total, essential, or particular being of a person; the individual

A part of humans regarded as immaterial, immortal, separable from the body at death, capable of moral judgment, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state.

The essential qualities distinguishing one person from another; individuality

This part of a human when disembodied after death.

One's consciousness of one's own being or identity; the ego

In Aristotelian philosophy, an animating or vital principle inherent in living things and endowing them in various degrees with the potential to grow and reproduce, to move and respond to stimuli (as in the case of animals), and to think rationally (as in the case of humans).

One's own interests, welfare, or advantage

A human

(Immunology) That which the immune system identifies as belonging to the body

A person considered as the embodiment of an intangible quality; a personification

Of the same character throughout.

A person's emotional or moral nature

Of the same material as the article with which it is used

The central or integral part; the vital core

(Obsolete) Same or identical.

A sense of emotional strength or spiritual vitality held to derive from black and especially African American cultural experience, expressed in areas such as language, social customs, religion, and music.

To fertilize or pollinate itself. Used of hermaphroditic organisms.

Strong, deeply felt emotion conveyed by a speaker, performer, or artist

(obsolete) Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).

Soul music.

Myself.

The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality, often believed to live on after the person's death.

One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.

The spirit or essence of anything.

The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.

Life, energy, vigor.

An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves).

(music) Soul music.

Self-interest or personal advantage.

A person, especially as one among many.

Identity or personality.

An individual life.

(botany) A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).

(math) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.

(botany) A flower having its colour uniform as opposed to variegated.

To endow with a soul or mind.

Any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, or xenogenic).

To beg on All Soul's Day.

(botany) To fertilise by the same individual; to self-fertilise or self-pollinate.

(obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

(botany) To fertilise by the same strain; to inbreed.

Sole.

Having its own or a single nature or character throughout, as in colour, composition, etc., without addition or change; of the same kind; unmixed.

By or for African-Americans, or characteristic of their culture; as, soul music; soul newspapers; soul food.

(obsolete) Same, identical.

To afford suitable sustenance.

(obsolete) Belonging to oneself; own.

To indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.

Of or relating to any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, or xenogenic).

The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; - sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; - sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling, in distinction from intellect; - sometimes, the intellect only; the understanding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling. In a more general sense, "an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence."

Same; particular; very; identical.

The seat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the animating or essential part.

Having its own or a single nature or character, as in color, composition, etc., without addition or change; unmixed; as, a self bow, one made from a single piece of wood; self flower or plant, one which is wholly of one color; self-colored.

The leader; the inspirer; the moving spirit; the heart; as, the soul of an enterprise; an able general is the soul of his army.

The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness; the man viewed by his own cognition as the subject of all his mental phenomena, the agent in his own activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the possessor of capacities and character; a person as a distinct individual; a being regarded as having personality.

Energy; courage; spirit; fervor; affection, or any other noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature; inherent power or goodness.

Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim.

A human being; a person; - a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul.

Personification; embodiment.

A pure or disembodied spirit.

Your consciousness of your own identity

A perceived shared community and awareness among African-Americans.

A person considered as a unique individual;

Soul music.

Combining form; oneself or itself;

The immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life

Used as a combining form; relating to--of or by or to or from or for--the self;

A human being;

Deep feeling or emotion

The human embodiment of something;

A secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s;