Partitioning the Soul : : Debates from Plato to Leibniz /

Partitioning the Soul : : Debates from Plato to Leibniz / / ed. by Klaus Corcilius, Dominik Perler.

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Does the soul have parts? What kind of parts? And how do all the parts make together a whole? Many ancient, medieval and early modern philosophers discussed these questions, thus providing a mereological analysis of the soul. Their starting point was a simple observation: we tend to describe the sou...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Barth, Christian,
Corcilius, Klaus,
Hankinson, Robert J.,
Helmig, Christoph,
Inwood, Brad,
Johansen, Thomas K.,
Karfík, Filip,
Perler, Dominik,
Rozemond, Marleen,
Schmid, Stephan,
Shields, Christopher,
HerausgeberIn:
Corcilius, Klaus,
Perler, Dominik,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Topoi – Berlin Studies of the Ancient World/Topoi – Berliner Studien der Alten Welt , 22
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Plato’s Divided Soul
  • Parts in Aristotle’s Definition of Soul: De Anima Books I and II
  • Walking and Talking: Reflections on Divisions of the Soul in Stoicism
  • Partitioning the Soul: Galen on the Anatomy of the Psychic Functions and Mental Illness
  • Parts of the Soul in Plotinus
  • Iamblichus, Proclus and Philoponus on Parts, Capacities and ousiai of the Soul and the Notion of Life
  • Ockham on Emotions in the Divided Soul
  • Virtual Presence: Psychic Mereology in Francisco Suárez
  • The Faces of Simplicity in Descartes’s Soul
  • Spinoza on the Unity of Will and Intellect
  • The Great Chain of Souls: Leibniz on Soul Unitarism and Soul Kinds
  • List of Contributors
  • Index of Names

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