Life Concepts from Aristotle to Darwin

On Vegetable Souls

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

AvLucas John Mix

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This book traces the history of life-concepts, with a focus on the vegetable souls of Aristotle, investigating how they were interpreted and eventually replaced by evolutionary biology.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-01-25
Mått148 x 210 x 18 mm
Vikt380 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor273
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030071394

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1. Vegetable Souls?.- 2. Greek Life – Psyche and Early Life-Concepts.- 3. Strangely Moved – Appetitive Souls in Plato.- 4. Three Causes in One – Biological Explanation in Aristotle.- 5. Life in Action – Nutritive Souls in Aristotle.-6. Plants versus Animals in Hellenistic Thought.- 7. The Breath of Life – Nephesh in Hebrew Scriptures.- 8. Life after Life – Spiritual Life in Christianity.- 9. Invisible Seeds – Life-Concepts in Augustine.- 10. Aristotle Returns – A Second Medieval Synthesis.- 11. Life Divided – Vegetable Life in Aquinas.- 12. Mechanism Displaces the Soul.- 13. Divided Hopes – Physics versus Metaphysics.- 14. Ghosts in the Machine – Vitalism.- 15. The Same and Different – Early Theories of Evolution.-16. Vegetable Significance – Evolution by Natural Selection.- 17. “Vegetables” versus Modern Plants.- 18. Counting Lives- Regulators and Replicators.- 19. What Can Be Revived (and What Cannot).

“Life Concepts, Mix (Harvard) provides a comprehensive treatise of the soul, emphasizing nutritive or vegetable souls, from the concept's beginnings with Homer and pre-Socratic philosophers to significant development of the disparate views of Plato and Aristotle. … As a philosophical and theological work, Mix provides a meaningful and engaging account of a deep, enduring subject.” (Z. B. Johnson, Choice, Vol. 56 (8), April, 2019)