Life concepts from Aristotle to Darwin : on vegetable souls /: on vegetable souls. ([2018])
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- Book
- Title:
- Life concepts from Aristotle to Darwin : on vegetable souls /: on vegetable souls. ([2018])
- Main Title:
- Life concepts from Aristotle to Darwin : on vegetable souls
- Further Information:
- Note: Lucas John Mix.
- Authors:
- Mix, Lucas John
- Contents:
- Intro; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1 Vegetable Souls?; Goals for the Book; Recurrent Themes; Composition; Causal Processes; Activity and Agency; Individuality; Purpose; Platonic and Aristotelian Approaches; References; Part I Birth; Chapter 2 Greek Life: Psyche and Early Life-Concepts; Shades of Homer; Life Before Plato; Returning from the Dead; Common Life; Multiple Souls; The Stuff of Life; Soul Particles; Cosmic Soul; References; Chapter 3 Strangely Moved: Appetitive Souls in Plato; Forms and Particulars; Lasting Souls; Ruling Souls; A Continuum of Souls; Achieving Harmony; World Order Part II DevelopmentChapter 7 The Breath of Life: Nephesh in Hebrew Scriptures; Hellenistic and Hebrew Thought; Hebrew Scriptures; A Second Life; Philo of Alexandria; References; Chapter 8 Life After Life: Spiritual Life in Christianity; A Note on Interpretation; Two Lives, Two Deaths; Spirit Versus Flesh?; Two Deaths; Two Births; Christian Identity; Tertullian; Origen; References; Chapter 9 Invisible Seeds: Life-Concepts in Augustine; The Dual Creation; Biology; The Hierarchy of Life; The Inner Person; The Rational Animal; The Will; Two Deaths, Two Resurrections; References Chapter 10 Aristotle Returns: A Second Medieval SynthesisAristotle Reinterpreted; The Falsafah; Ibn Sînâ; Al-Ghazâlî; Ibn Rushd; Maimonides; References; Chapter 11 Life Divided: Vegetable Life in Aquinas; Albert the Great; Thomas Aquinas; Hierarchical Creation; Multiple Births; Will and Intellect; Resurrection; Hierarchy;Intro; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1 Vegetable Souls?; Goals for the Book; Recurrent Themes; Composition; Causal Processes; Activity and Agency; Individuality; Purpose; Platonic and Aristotelian Approaches; References; Part I Birth; Chapter 2 Greek Life: Psyche and Early Life-Concepts; Shades of Homer; Life Before Plato; Returning from the Dead; Common Life; Multiple Souls; The Stuff of Life; Soul Particles; Cosmic Soul; References; Chapter 3 Strangely Moved: Appetitive Souls in Plato; Forms and Particulars; Lasting Souls; Ruling Souls; A Continuum of Souls; Achieving Harmony; World Order Part II DevelopmentChapter 7 The Breath of Life: Nephesh in Hebrew Scriptures; Hellenistic and Hebrew Thought; Hebrew Scriptures; A Second Life; Philo of Alexandria; References; Chapter 8 Life After Life: Spiritual Life in Christianity; A Note on Interpretation; Two Lives, Two Deaths; Spirit Versus Flesh?; Two Deaths; Two Births; Christian Identity; Tertullian; Origen; References; Chapter 9 Invisible Seeds: Life-Concepts in Augustine; The Dual Creation; Biology; The Hierarchy of Life; The Inner Person; The Rational Animal; The Will; Two Deaths, Two Resurrections; References Chapter 10 Aristotle Returns: A Second Medieval SynthesisAristotle Reinterpreted; The Falsafah; Ibn Sînâ; Al-Ghazâlî; Ibn Rushd; Maimonides; References; Chapter 11 Life Divided: Vegetable Life in Aquinas; Albert the Great; Thomas Aquinas; Hierarchical Creation; Multiple Births; Will and Intellect; Resurrection; Hierarchy; References; Part III Death; Chapter 12 Mechanism Displaces the Soul; William of Ockham; The Protestant Reformation; The Mechanical Philosophy; The Machine Metaphor; Ontological Elimination; Etiological Reduction; Pierre Gassendi; René Descartes; Cartesian Biology Life in SpaceReferences; Chapter 13 Divided Hopes: Physics Versus Metaphysics; How to Study Life; Bacon-Physics and Metaphysics; Leibniz-Matter and Monads; Kant-Phenomena and Noumena; Design Arguments; Irreconcilable Differences; Idealists; David Hume; The Iatromechanists; Reducible Life; Irreducible Life; References; Chapter 14 Ghosts in the Machine: Vitalism; The Animists; The Iatrochemists; The (Iatro)Vitalists; Vital Forces and Fluids; German Idealism; Georg Hegel; Friedrich Nietzsche; The Two Natures; Emergence; References; Chapter 15 The Same and Different: Early Theories of Evolution … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Copyright Date:
- 2018
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 128
Philosophy
Life
Soul
PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism
Science -- Life Sciences -- Evolution
Social Science -- Sociology of Religion
Evolution
Religious issues & debates
Philosophy of nature
Evolution (Biology)
Religion and sociology
Philosophy -- Reference
Philosophy
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783319960470
3319960474 - Related ISBNs:
- 9783319960463
3319960466 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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