Nutrition and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle and Aristotelianism
by R. A. H., King, Andrea, Libero Carbone, Andreas, Blank, Bernd, Roling, Christoph, Sander, David, Lefebvre, Elisabeth, Moreau, Giouli, Korobili, Gweltaz, Guyomarc'h, Hynek, Bartoš, James G., Lennox, Keller, Dorothea, Martin, Klein, Mary Louise, Gill, Robert, Mayhew, Sophia M., Connell, Tommaso, Alpina
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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 found…
The six studies comprising this volume deal with some fundamental issues in early Greek thought: cosmic evaluation in Anaximander, the theory of opposites from the Pre-Socratics to Plato and Aristotle, thought experimentation in Pre-Socratic thought, the origins of Greek Sceptic…
The six studies comprising this volume deal with some fundamental issues in early Greek thought: cosmic evaluation in Anaximander, the theory of opposites from the Pre-Socratics to Plato and Aristotle, thought experimentation in Pre-Socratic thought, the origins of Greek Sceptic…
From Plato's Timaeus onwards, the world or cosmos has been conceived of as a living, rational organism. Most notably in German Idealism, philosophers still talked of a 'Weltseele' (Schelling) or 'Weltgeist' (Hegel). This volume is the first collection of essays on the origin of …