Body And Soul In Ancient Philosophy

Author : Dorothea Frede,Burkhard Reis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110216523

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Body and Soul in Ancient Philosophy by Dorothea Frede,Burkhard Reis Pdf

The 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 : Richard A.H. King
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110196511

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Common to Body and Soul by Richard A.H. King Pdf

The volume presents essays on the philosophical explanation of the relationship between body and soul in antiquity from the Presocratics to Galen, including papers on Parmenides on thinking (E. Hussey, R. Dilcher), Empedocles’ Love (D. O’Brien), tripartition of the soul in Plato (T. Buchheim), Aristotle – especially the Parva Naturalia – (C. Rapp, T. Johansen, P.-M. Morel), Peripatetics after Aristotle (R. Sharples), Hellenistic Philosophy (C. Rapp, C. Gill), and Galen (R. J. Hankinson). The title of the volume alludes to a phrase found in Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus, referring to aspects of living behaviour involving both body and soul, and is a commonplace in ancient philosophy, dealt with in very different ways by different authors.

Author : Gesellschaft für antike Philosophie. Kongress
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Mind and body
ISBN : 9783110202366

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Body and Soul in Ancient Philosophy by Gesellschaft für antike Philosophie. Kongress Pdf

The 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 : Brad Inwood,James Warren
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108485821

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Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy by Brad Inwood,James Warren Pdf

Explores Greek and Roman theories about the relationship of soul and body in the centuries after Aristotle.

Author : Hynek Bartoš,Colin Guthrie King
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108476737

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Heat, Pneuma, and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science by Hynek Bartoš,Colin Guthrie King Pdf

The first volume to examine theories of soul in Greek philosophy using an approach drawn from the history of science.

Author : Coleen P. Zoller
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438470832

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Plato and the Body by Coleen P. Zoller Pdf

Offers an innovative reading of Plato, analyzing his metaphysical, ethical, and political commitments in connection with feminist critiques. For centuries, it has been the prevailing view that in prioritizing the soul, Plato ignores or even abhors the body; however, in Plato and the Body Coleen P. Zoller argues that Plato does value the body and the role it plays in philosophical life, focusing on Plato’s use of Socrates as an exemplar. Zoller reveals a more refined conception of the ascetic lifestyle epitomized by Socrates in Plato’s Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus, Gorgias, and Republic. Her interpretation illuminates why those who want to be wise and good have reason to be curious about and love the natural world and the bodies in it, and has implications for how we understand Plato’s metaphysical and political commitments. This book shows the relevance of this broader understanding of Plato for work on a variety of relevant contemporary issues, including sexual morality, poverty, wealth inequality, and peace. Coleen P. Zoller is Professor of Philosophy at Susquehanna University.

Author : D. (ed.) FREDE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3110202360

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Body and Soul in Ancient Philosophy Gesellschaft Für Antike Philosophie. Kongress (2nd by D. (ed.) FREDE Pdf

Author : A. P. Bos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004130160

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The Soul and Its Instrumental Body by A. P. Bos Pdf

Aristotle's definition of the soul should be interpreted as: 'the soul is the entelechy of a natural body that serves as its instrument'. The theory of a fine-corporeal body makes it much easier to understand Aristotle's position between Plato and the Stoics . This correction puts paid to all theories about a development in Aristotle's thought.

Author : W. C. W. Taylor
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191527647

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Pleasure, Mind, and Soul by W. C. W. Taylor Pdf

C. C. W. Taylor presents a selection of his essays in ancient philosophy, drawn from forty years of writings on the subject. The central theme of the volume is the moral psychology of Plato and Aristotle, with a special focus on pleasure and related concepts, an area central to Greek ethical thought. Taylor also discusses Socrates and the Greek atomists (including the Epicureans), showing how Plato's ethics grows out of the thought of Socrates, and that pleasure is also a central concept for the atomists. Pleasure, Mind, and Soul provides a fascinating survey of a range of important topics in the work of some of the greatest ancient philosophers, and which remain the subject of lively philosophical debate today.

Author : Marcelo D. Boeri,Yasuhira Y. Kanayama,Jorge Mittelmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319785479

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Soul and Mind in Greek Thought. Psychological Issues in Plato and Aristotle by Marcelo D. Boeri,Yasuhira Y. Kanayama,Jorge Mittelmann Pdf

This book offers new insights into the workings of the human soul and the philosophical conception of the mind in Ancient Greece. It collects essays that deal with different but interconnected aspects of that unified picture of our mental life shared by all Ancient philosophers who thought of the soul as an immaterial substance. The papers present theoretical discussions on moral and psychological issues ranging from Socrates to Aristotle, and beyond, in connection with modern psychology. Coverage includes moral learning and the fruitfulness of punishment, human motivation, emotions as psychic phenomena, and more. Some of these topics directly stemmed from the Socratic dialectical experience and its tragic outcome, whereas others found their way through a complex history of refinements, disputes, and internal critique. The contributors present the gradual unfolding of these central themes through a close inspection of the relevant Ancient texts. They deliver a wide-ranging survey of some central and mutually related topics. In the process, readers will learn new approaches to Platonic and Aristotelian psychology and action theory. This book will appeal to graduate students and researchers in Ancient philosophy. Any scholar with a general interest in the history of ideas will also find it a valuable resource.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:49015002793470

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Aristotle's On the Soul by Aristotle Pdf

In this timeless and profound inquiry, Aristotle presents a view of the psyche that avoids the simplifications both of the materialists and those who believe in the soul as something quite distinct from body. On the Soul also includes Aristotle's idiosyncratic and influential account of light and colors. On Memory and Recollection continues the investigation of some of the topics introduced in On the Soul. Sachs's fresh and jargon-free approach to the translation of Aristotle, his lively and insightful introduction, and his notes and glossaries, all bring out the continuing relevance of Aristotle's thought to biological and philosophical questions.

Author : Ricardo Salles
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191555619

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Metaphysics, Soul, and Ethics in Ancient Thought by Ricardo Salles Pdf

Leading figures in ancient philosophy present eighteen original papers on three key themes in the work of Richard Sorabji. The papers dealing with Metaphysics range from Democritus to Numenius on basic questions about the structure and nature of reality: necessitation, properties, and time. The section on Soul includes one paper on the individuation of souls in Plato and five papers on Aristotle's and Aristotelian theories of cognition, with a special emphasis on perception. The section devoted to Ethics concentrates upon Stoicism and the complex views the Stoics held on such topics as motivation, akrasia, oikeiôsis, and the emotions. The volume also contains a fascinating 'intellectual autobiography' by Sorabji himself, and a full Bibliography of his works.

Author : Giouli Korobili,Roberto Lo Presti
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110690569

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Nutrition and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle and Aristotelianism by Giouli Korobili,Roberto Lo Presti Pdf

This 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 : Pauliina Remes,Juha Sihvola
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402085963

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Ancient Philosophy of the Self by Pauliina Remes,Juha Sihvola Pdf

Pauliina Remes and Juha Sihvola In the course of history, philosophers have given an impressive variety of answers to the question, “What is self?” Some of them have even argued that there is no such thing at all. This volume explores the various ways in which selfhood was approached and conceptualised in antiquity. How did the ancients understand what it is that I am, fundamentally, as an acting and affected subject, interpreting the world around me, being distinct from others like and unlike me? The authors hi- light the attempts in ancient philosophical sources to grasp the evasive character of the specifically human presence in the world. They also describe how the ancient philosophers understood human agents as capable of causing changes and being affected in and by the world. Attention will be paid to the various ways in which the ancients conceived of human beings as subjects of reasoning and action, as well as responsible individuals in the moral sphere and in their relations to other people. The themes of persistence, identity, self-examination and self-improvement recur in many of these essays. The articles of the collection combine systematic and historical approaches to ancient sources that range from Socrates to Plotinus and Augustine.

Author : Stewart Goetz,Charles Taliaferro
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781444395921

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A Brief History of the Soul by Stewart Goetz,Charles Taliaferro Pdf

This book is a clear and concise history of the soul in western philosophy, from Plato to cutting-edge contemporary work in philosophy of mind. Packed with arguments for and against a range of different, historically significant philosophies of the soul Addresses the essential issues, including mind-body interaction, the causal closure of the physical world, and the philosophical implications of the brain sciences for the soul's existence Includes coverage of theories from key figures, such as Plato, Aquinas, Locke, Hume, and Descartes Unique in combining the history of ideas and the development of a powerful case for a non-reductionist, non-materialist account of the soul