Life Concepts from Aristotle to Darwin On Vegetable Souls /
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| Summary: | VIII, 273 p. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96047-0 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- 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).