Life Concepts from Aristotle to Darwin (eBook)

On Vegetable Souls

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2018 | 1st ed. 2018
VIII, 273 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-96047-0 (ISBN)

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Life Concepts from Aristotle to Darwin - Lucas John Mix
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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.




Lucas John Mix is an associate of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, USA. He works at the intersection of biology, history, philosophy, and theology and has worked with NASA Astrobiology programs for the last 20 years on understanding the meaning and extent of life.

Lucas John Mix is an associate of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, USA. He works at the intersection of biology, history, philosophy, and theology and has worked with NASA Astrobiology programs for the last 20 years on understanding the meaning and extent of life.

1. Vegetable Souls?                                                                                                                       

2. Greek Life – Psyche and Early Life-Concepts                                                  

3. Strangely Moved – Appetitive Souls in Plato                                                  

4. Three Causes in One – Biological Explanation in Aristotle                          

5. Life in Action – Nutritive Souls in Aristotle                                                                       

6. Plants versus Animals in Hellenistic Thought                                  

7. The Breath of Life – Nephesh in Hebrew Scriptures                                    

8. Life after Life – Spiritual Life in Christianity                                                   

9. Invisible Seeds – Life-Concepts in Augustine                                                 

10. Aristotle Returns – A Second Medieval Synthesis                                                      

11. Life Divided – Vegetable Life in Aquinas                        

12. Mechanism Displaces the Soul                                                                                           

13. Divided Hopes – Physics versus Metaphysics                                                              

14. Ghosts in the Machine – Vitalism                                      

15. The Same and Different – Early Theories of Evolution                                             

16.  Vegetable Significance – Evolution by Natural Selection                                        

17. “Vegetables” versus Modern Plants                                                                                

18. Counting Lives- Regulators and Replicators                                                  

19. What Can Be Revived (and What Cannot)                                                      

Erscheint lt. Verlag 29.8.2018
Zusatzinfo VIII, 273 p.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Evolution
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Schlagworte Aristotle • biopower • Nealon • phaulon skemma • Religion and Society • taliaferro
ISBN-10 3-319-96047-4 / 3319960474
ISBN-13 978-3-319-96047-0 / 9783319960470
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