Partitioning the soul : debates from Plato to Leibniz /
"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. The eleven chapters reconstruct and critically examine radically dif...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2014]
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| Series: | Topoi (Berlin, Germany) ;
v. 22. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 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 Suarez
- 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.
