The Essence and Truth of the Soul and its Relation to the Body in Western Philosophy

Initially, sources such as dreams, the presence of spirits, and the respiration of beings are among the origins of understanding the soul. One of the greatest intellectual problems of the human being is that it has an inner and spiritual imagination of itself, which is difficult to reconcile with a comprehensive scientific understanding of the material world, including the body. We see ourselves as beings with souls and minds, albeit in a world made up of mindless material particles. Now the question is, how can these two imagines be reconciled? Why is it so difficult to imagine the soul along with the body? At least since Descartes, the problem of the soul and the body has become such that how can the relationship between the soul and the body be interpreted? Western philosophers disagree on the concept of "I" with which everyone refers. What can be said to explain these disagreements? Is the subject (I) referred to as a material and a body; Or is it neither a body nor a material? or is it composed of these types? Our goal in this article is to discover and interpret the data by descriptive-analytic method while expressing the Western philosophers' definition of the soul, explain their solution to the relationship between the soul and the body. The finding of this research on the soul can be considered as being; The soul does not fit into any scientific definition and explanation, and we cannot say what it is, but we can say that it exists and that there are consciousness and life around it.