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Author: Hynek Bartoš
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-12
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1108476732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first volume to examine theories of soul in Greek philosophy using an approach drawn from the history of science.
Author: Dorothea Frede
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2009-10-28
Total Pages: 573
ISBN-13: 3110216523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe problem of body and soul has a long history that can be traced back to the beginnings of Greek culture. The existential question of what happened to the soul at the moment of death, whether and in what form there is life after death, and of the exact relationship between body and soul was answered in different ways in Greek philosophy, from the early days to Late Antiquity. The contributions in this volume not only do justice to the breadth of the topic, they also cover the entire period from the Pre-Socratics to Late Antiquity. Particular attention is paid to Plato, Aristotle and Hellenistic philosophers, that is the Stoics and the Epicureans.
Author: Giouli Korobili
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-12-07
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 311069056X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is a detailed study of the concept of the nutritive capacity of the soul and its actual manifestation in living bodies (plants, animals, humans) in Aristotle and Aristotelianism. Aristotle’s innovative analysis of the nutritive faculty has laid the intellectual foundation for the increasing appreciation of nutrition as a prerequisite for the maintenance of life and health that can be observed in the history of Greek thought. According to Aristotle, apart from nutrition, the nutritive part of the soul is also responsible for or interacts with many other bodily functions or mechanisms, such as digestion, growth, reproduction, sleep, and the innate heat. After Aristotle, these concepts were used and further developed by a great number of Peripatetic philosophers, commentators on Aristotle and Arabic thinkers until early modern times. This volume is the first of its kind to provide an in-depth survey of the development of this rather philosophical concept from Aristotle to early modern thinkers. It is of key interest to scholars working on classical, medieval and early modern psycho-physiological accounts of living things, historians and philosophers of science, biologists with interests in the history of science, and, generally, students of the history of philosophy and science.
Author: S. M. Connell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-05-27
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1107197732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprehensive overview of all the key issues in Aristotle's biological works and their place within his broader philosophy and theology.
Author: Bohang Chen
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 3031706900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Giouli Korobili
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-06-21
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 3030999661
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is devoted to the last part of Aristotle’s collection of short treatises known today as the Parva Naturalia, i.e. the treatise On Youth and Old Age, on Life and Death, on Respiration. In the three main sections of the book, the author offers a translation, a commentary and a thorough analysis of this work. The author argues in favour of the unity of the work and contextualises its ideas within Aristotle’s corpus and the medical tradition of his time. After an Introduction to the nature of the work and its significance for the history of natural philosophy and science, a new English translation follows, along with a detailed commentary of Chapters 1-6, which combines philosophical discussion with philological observations. The book includes four interpretive essays, which tackle problems related to the whole treatise on a more philosophical basis, including questions about the structure and unity of the work, the organisation of the material, Aristotle’s methodological principles, his aims and target audience as well as the relevance of his selected themes to the thematic agenda of some Hippocratic writings. This book is of interest to students and researchers in Aristotle’s psychophysiology, and his views about the embodied mind, as well as to anyone concerned with the history of natural philosophy and science more generally.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-08-08
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9004703543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite Aristotle's family background and his undeniable impact on ancient Greek medicine, the influence of medicine on Aristotle's philosophy is controversial and far from universally acknowledged. The aim of this volume is to re-examine the influence of medical knowledge and literature on Aristotle's work, in particular to explore the connections with the Hippocratic writings. The volume encourages further exploration of this interdisciplinary area and offers new insights by presenting a series of case studies that examine in detail specific debates within the Aristotelian corpus in relation to the medical literature.
Author: Alex Long
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-06-03
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1108832288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRe-examines the concept of immortality in ancient philosophy from the Presocratics to Augustine.
Author: Russell E. Gmirkin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022-05-03
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 1000578429
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlato’s Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts argues that the creation of the world in Genesis 1 and the story of the first humans in Genesis 2-3 both draw directly on Plato’s famous account of the origins of the universe, mortal life and evil containing equal parts science, theology and myth. This book is the first to systematically compare biblical, Ancient Near Eastern and Greek creation accounts and to show that Genesis 1-3 is heavily indebted to Plato’s Timaeus and other cosmogonies by Greek natural philosophers. It argues that the idea of a monotheistic cosmic god was first introduced in Genesis 1 under the influence of Plato’s philosophy, and that this cosmic Creator was originally distinct from the lesser terrestrial gods, including Yahweh, who appear elsewhere in Genesis. It shows the use of Plato’s Critias, the sequel to Timaeus, in the stories about the Garden of Eden, the intermarriage of "the sons of God" and the daughters of men, and the biblical flood. This book confirms the late date and Hellenistic background of Genesis 1-11, drawing on Plato’s writings and other Greek sources found at the Great Library of Alexandria. This study provides a fascinating approach to Genesis that will interest students and scholars in both biblical and classical studies, philosophy and creation narratives. .
Author: Brad Inwood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-06-11
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1108624111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhilosophers and doctors from the period immediately after Aristotle down to the second century CE were particularly focussed on the close relationships of soul and body; such relationships are particularly intimate when the soul is understood to be a material entity, as it was by Epicureans and Stoics; but even Aristotelians and Platonists shared the conviction that body and soul interact in ways that affect the well-being of the living human being. These philosophers were interested in the nature of the soul, its structure, and its powers. They were also interested in the place of the soul within a general account of the world. This leads to important questions about the proper methods by which we should investigate the nature of the soul and the appropriate relationships among natural philosophy, medicine, and psychology. This volume, part of the Symposium Hellenisticum series, features ten scholars addressing different aspects of this topic.
