Life Concepts from Aristotle to Darwin

Life Concepts from Aristotle to Darwin

On Vegetable Souls

Mix, Lucas John

Springer International Publishing AG

09/2018

273

Dura

Inglês

9783319960463

15 a 20 dias

498


ebook

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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).
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Aristotle;Taliaferro;biopower;phaulon skemma;Nealon;religion and society