Life Concepts from Aristotle to Darwin On Vegetable Souls /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Mix, Lucas John (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Philosophy of nature.; Evolutionary biology.; Religion and sociology.; Philosophy of Nature.; Evolutionary Biology.; Religion and Society.

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. Philosophers have long struggled with the relationship between physics, physiology, and psychology, asking questio...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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).