Soul And Mind In Greek Thought Psychological Issues In Plato And Aristotle

Author : Marcelo D. Boeri,Yasuhira Y. Kanayama,Jorge Mittelmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Oxford University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191026430

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On the Soul by Aristotle Pdf

'. . . the more honourable animals have been allotted a more honourable soul. . . ' What is the nature of the soul? It is this question that Aristotle sought to answer in De Anima (On the Soul). In doing so he offers a psychological theory that encompasses not only human beings but all living beings. Its basic thesis, that the soul is the form of an organic body, sets it in sharp contrast with both Pre-Socratic physicalism and Platonic dualism. On the Soul contains Aristotle's definition of the soul, and his explanations of nutrition, perception, cognition, and animal self-motion. The general theory in De Anima is augmented in the shorter works of Parva Naturalia, which deal with perception, memory and recollection, sleep and dreams, longevity, life-cycles, and psycho-physiology. This new translation brings together all of Aristotle's extant and complementary psychological works, and adds as a supplement ancient testimony concerning his lost writings dealing with the soul. The introduction by Fred D. Miller, Jr. explains the central place of the soul in Aristotle's natural science, the unifying themes of his psychological theory, and his continuing relevance for modern philosophy and psychology.

Author : Jason W. Carter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108481076

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Aristotle on Earlier Greek Psychology by Jason W. Carter Pdf

Argues that Aristotle's psychology is shaped by his critical reception of earlier theories of soul, including the Presocratic and Platonic.

Author : Christopher Charles Whiston Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 0191710202

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Pleasure, Mind, and Soul by Christopher Charles Whiston Taylor Pdf

C.C.W. Taylor presents a selection of his writings on a set of important topics in the work of some of the greatest ancient philosophers. 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.

Author : Ellen Wagner
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0739102583

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Essays on Plato's Psychology by Ellen Wagner Pdf

The last several decades have witnessed an explosion of research in Platonic philosophy. A central focus of his philosophical effort, Plato's psychology is of interest both in its own right and as fundamental to his metaphysical and moral theories. This anthology offers, for the first time, a collection of the best classic and recent essays on cenral topics of Plato's psychological theory, including essays on the nature of the soul, studies of the tripartite soul for which Plato argues in the Republic, and analyses of his varied arguments for immortality. With a comprehensive introduction to the major issues of Plato's psychology and an up-to-date bibliography of work on the relevant issues, this much-needed text makes the study of Plato's psychology accessible to scholars in ancient Greek philosophy, classics, and history of psychology.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Erik Nis Ostenfeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015028478686

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Ancient Greek Psychology and the Modern Mind-body Debate by Erik Nis Ostenfeld Pdf

Author : PaulS. Macdonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351563642

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History of the Concept of Mind by PaulS. Macdonald Pdf

In the 20th century theorists of mind were almost exclusively concerned with various versions of the materialist thesis, but prior to current debates accounts of soul and mind reveal an extraordinary richness and complexity ?which bear careful and impartial investigation. This book is the first single-authored, comprehensive work to examine the historical, linguistic and conceptual issues involved in exploring the basic features of the human mind - from its most remote origins to the beginning of the modern period. MacDonald traces the development of an armature of psychical concepts from the Old Testament and Homer's works to the 18th century advocacy of an empirical science of the mind. Along the way, detailed attention is paid to the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Epicurus, before turning to look at the New Testament, Neoplatonism, Augustine, Medieval Islam, Aquinas and Dante. Treatment of Renaissance theories is followed by an unusual (perhaps unique) chapter on the words "soul" and "mind" in English literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare; the story then rejoins the mainstream with analyses of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. Chapter-focused bibliographies.

Author : Anthony A. Long
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674967342

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Greek Models of Mind and Self by Anthony A. Long Pdf

A. A. Long’s study of Greek notions of mind and human selfhood is anchored in questions of universal interest. What happens to us when we die? How is the mind or soul related to the body? Are we responsible for our own happiness? Can we achieve autonomy? Long shows that Greek thinkers’ modeling of the mind gave us metaphors that we still live by.

Author : Philoponus,
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472501271

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Philoponus: On Aristotle On the Soul 1.1-2 by Philoponus, Pdf

This text by Philoponus, the sixth-century commentator on Aristotle, is notable for its informative introduction to psychology, which tells us the views of Philoponus, of his teacher and of later Neoplatonists on our psychological capacities and on mind-body relations. There is an unusual account of how reason can infer a universally valid conclusion from a single instance, and there are inherited views on the roles of intellect and perception in concept formation, and on the human ability to make reasoned decisions, celebrated by Aristotle, but here downgraded. Philoponus attacks Galen's view that psychological capacities follow, or result from, bodily chemistry; they merely supervene on that and can be counteracted. He has benefited from Galen's knowledge of the brain and nerves, but also propounds the Neoplatonist belief in tenuous bodies which after death support our irrational souls temporarily, or our reason eternally.

Author : Christopher D. Green,Philip R. Groff
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056918728

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Early Psychological Thought by Christopher D. Green,Philip R. Groff Pdf

Examines the early development of psychological thought from archaic Greece to the fall of Rome.

Author : Ricardo Salles
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : John Philoponus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Mind and body
ISBN : UVA:X030106368

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On Aristotle's "On the Soul 1.3-5" by John Philoponus Pdf

This text by Philoponus rejects accounts of soul, or as we would say of mind, which define it as moving, as cognitive, or in physical terms. Chapter 3 considers Aristotle's attack on the idea that the soul is in motion. This was an attack partly on his teacher, Plato, since Plato defines the soul as self-moving. Philoponus agrees with Aristotle's attack on the idea that a thing must be in motion in order to cause motion. But he offers what may be Ammonius' interpretation of Plato's apparently physicalistic account of the soul in the Timaeus as symbolic. What we would call the mind-body relation is the subject of Chapter 4. Plato and Aristotle attacked a physicalistic theory of soul, which suggested it was the blend, ratio, or harmonious proportion of ingredients in the body. Philoponus attacked the theory too, but we learn from him that Epicurus had defended it. In Chapter 5, Philoponus endorses Aristotle's rejection of the idea that the soul is particles and of Empedocles' idea that the soul must be made of all four elements in order to know what is made of the same elements. He also rejects, with Aristotle, definitions of the soul as moving or cognitive as ignoring lower forms of life. He finally discusses Aristotle's rejection of Plato's localisation of parts of the soul in parts of the body, but asks if new knowledge of the brain and the nerves do not require some kind of localisation.

Author : Zacharoula Petraki
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783111178219

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Sculpture, weaving, and the body in Plato by Zacharoula Petraki Pdf

Plato’s Timaeus is unique in Greek Antiquity for presenting the creation of the world as the work of a divine demiurge. The maker bestows order on sensible things and imitates the world of the intellect by using the Forms as models. While the creation-myth of the Timaeus seems unparalleled, this book argues that it is not the first of Plato’s dialogues to use artistic language to articulate the relationship of the objects of the material world to the world of the intellect. The book adopts an interpretative angle that is sensitive to the visual and art-historical developments of Classical Athens to argue that sculpture, revolutionized by the advent of the lost-wax technique for the production of bronze statues, lies at the heart of Plato’s conception of the relation of the human soul and body to the Forms. It shows that, despite the severe criticism of mimēsis in the Republic, Plato’s use of artistic language rests on a positive model of mimēsis. Plato was in fact engaged in a constructive dialogue with material culture and he found in the technical processes and the cultural semantics of sculpture and of the art of weaving a valuable way to conceptualise and communicate complex ideas about humans’ relation to the Forms.

Author : Christopher Gill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0199220743

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Greek Thought by Christopher Gill Pdf

Four related themes in Greek thought are examined in this book: (1) personality and self, (2) ethics and values (3) individuals and communities, and (4) the idea of nature as a moral norm. Although the focus is on Greek philosophy (the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic period), links between philosophy and literature or the wider culture are also explored. The book combines a survey of recent scholarship on these topics with the author's own interpretations. It can be used by students or teachers of classical studies or philosophy as an introduction to key themes and issues in Greek ethics or psychology. One aspect of the subject given special emphasis is the relationship between ancient and modern ideas on the issues treated here. The book closes with a selective bibliography on modern work on Greek philosophy.