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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Corcilius, Klaus (Editor ), Perler, Dominik (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]
Colección:Topoi (Berlin, Germany) ; v. 22.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.