Life Concepts from Aristotle to Darwin On Vegetable Souls /

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主要作者: Mix, Lucas John (Author)
企业作者: SpringerLink (Online service)
总结:VIII, 273 p.
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语言:英语
出版: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
版:1st ed. 2018.
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在线阅读:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96047-0
格式: 电子 图书
书本目录:
  • 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).