World Soul – Anima Mundi : : On the Origins and Fortunes of a Fundamental Idea /

World Soul – Anima Mundi : : On the Origins and Fortunes of a Fundamental Idea / / ed. by Christoph Helmig.

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 the notion of the wor...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Baltzly, Dirk,
Caluori, Damian,
Dillon, John,
Ferrari, Franco,
Gavray, Marc-Antoine,
Gourinat, Jean-Baptiste,
Helmig, Christoph,
Karfík, Filip,
O’Brien, Carl,
Petrucci, Federico M.,
Thom, Johan C.,
Ulacco, Angela,
Vassallo, Christian,
Wilberding, James,
Zachhuber, Johannes,
HerausgeberIn:
Helmig, Christoph,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Topics in Ancient Philosophy / Themen der antiken Philosophie , 8
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 364 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgment
  • Contents
  • The World Soul in Antiquity and beyond
  • Part I: Prehistory of the concept
  • Is the Logos a kind of World Soul? On the relationship between cosmology and psychology in Heraclitus
  • Part II: Plato’s Timaeus and Pseudo-Aristotle’s De Mundo
  • Disorderly motion and the World Soul in the Timaeus
  • Die „Seele“ des Seienden bei Platon: Sophistes 248e–249a und Timaios 30a–31c
  • Ascoltare l’anima cosmica: riargomentazione ed esegesi tecnica κατὰ ζητήματα della divisio animae platonica
  • The power of god in Pseudo-Aristotle’s De mundo: An alternative approach
  • Part III: Old Academy, Stoicism, and Middle Platonism
  • The World Soul takes command: The doctrine of the World Soul in the Epinomis of Philip of Opus and in the academy of Polemon
  • Apospasma: The World Soul and its individual parts in Stoicism
  • Die kosmische Seele bei Ps.-Timaios Lokros und den anderen Pseudopythagorica: kosmologische und erkenntnistheoretische Aspekte
  • Calcidius on Fate and the World Soul
  • Part IV: Neoplatonism
  • Plotinus on the World Soul
  • The World Soul in the embryological theories of Porphyry and Plotinus
  • The World Soul in Proclus’ Timaeus Commentary
  • From the particular soul to the World Soul: Some puzzles in Philoponus
  • Part V: Nachleben
  • World Soul and celestial heat. Platonic and Aristotelian ideas in the history of natural philosophy
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Ancient Citations
  • Index of Subjects

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