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Life Concepts from Aristotle to Darwin: On Vegetable Souls

By Lucas John Mix

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2018
ISBN
978-3-319-96046-3;978-3-319-96047-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3616993 bytes)
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
VIII, 273\268
Time added
2019-01-12 07:52:26
Philosophy; Philosophy of Nature; Evolutionary Bio

Description

This book traces the history of life-concepts, with a focus on the vegetable souls of Aristotle, investigating how they were interpreted and eventually replaced by evolutionary biology. Philosophers have long struggled with the relationship between physics, physiology, and psychology, asking questions of organization, purpose, and agency. For two millennia, the vegetable soul, nutrition, and reproduction were commonly used to understand basic life and connect it to “higher” animal and vegetable life. Cartesian dualism and mechanism destroyed this bridge and left biology without an organizing principle until Darwin. Modern biology parallels Aristotelian vegetable life-concepts, but remains incompatible with the animal, rational, subjective, and spiritual life-concepts that developed through the centuries. Recent discoveries call for a second look at Aristotle’s ideas – though not their medieval descendants. Life remains an active, chemical process whose cause, identity, and purpose is self-perpetuation. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Vegetable Souls? (Lucas John Mix)....Pages 1-14 Front Matter ....Pages 15-15 Greek Life: Psyche and Early Life-Concepts (Lucas John Mix)....Pages 17-28 Strangely Moved: Appetitive Souls in Plato (Lucas John Mix)....Pages 29-41 Three Causes in One: Biological Explanation in Aristotle (Lucas John Mix)....Pages 43-53 Life in Action: Nutritive Souls in Aristotle (Lucas John Mix)....Pages 55-66 Plants Versus Animals in Hellenistic Thought (Lucas John Mix)....Pages 67-76 Front Matter ....Pages 77-77 The Breath of Life: Nephesh in Hebrew Scriptures (Lucas John Mix)....Pages 79-90 Life After Life: Spiritual Life in Christianity (Lucas John Mix)....Pages 91-102 Invisible Seeds: Life-Concepts in Augustine (Lucas John Mix)....Pages 103-115 Aristotle Returns: A Second Medieval Synthesis (Lucas John Mix)....Pages 117-128 Life Divided: Vegetable Life in Aquinas (Lucas John Mix)....Pages 129-140 Front Matter ....Pages 141-141 Mechanism Displaces the Soul (Lucas John Mix)....Pages 143-157 Divided Hopes: Physics Versus Metaphysics (Lucas John Mix)....Pages 159-173 Ghosts in the Machine: Vitalism (Lucas John Mix)....Pages 175-187 The Same and Different: Early Theories of Evolution (Lucas John Mix)....Pages 189-197 Vegetable Significance: Evolution by Natural Selection (Lucas John Mix)....Pages 199-210 Front Matter ....Pages 211-211 “Vegetables” Versus Modern Plants (Lucas John Mix)....Pages 213-223 Vegetable Individuality: The Organismal Self (Lucas John Mix)....Pages 225-238 Animal Individuality: The Subjective Self (Lucas John Mix)....Pages 239-248 What Can Be Revived (and What Cannot) (Lucas John Mix)....Pages 249-258 Back Matter ....Pages 259-273

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