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Vegetative Powers: The Roots of Life in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Natural Philosophy

Vegetative Powers: The Roots of Life in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Natural Philosophy

Hardcover

Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives Inte, Book 234

PhilosophyMedical ReferenceSports General

ISBN10: 3030697088
ISBN13: 9783030697082
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: May 26 2021
Pages: 459
Weight: 1.86
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
1. Introduction: Missing a Soul that Endows Bodies with Life.- 2. Souls, Parts of Soul, and Vegetation in Aristotle.- 3. The Vegetative Soul in the Neoplatonic Tradition.- 4. Galenic Anatomo-Physiology of the Vegetative Soul.- 5. Expanding the Parva Naturalia-Project: Albertus Magnus on nutrition.- 6. How to Explain Vegetative Functions of an Immaterial Soul?.- 7. Jesuit Vegetative Souls: Lessius and the Conimbricenses on men's 'lowest' functions.- 8. Towards the Elimination of the Anima Vegetativa: Some Intellectualistic Tendencies in the Jesuits Suárez and Arriaga.- 9. Daniel Sennert on the Vegetative Soul and its Powers.- 10. Nicolaus Taurellus on Forms, Vegetative Souls and the Question of Emergence.- 11. Generation and the Vegetative Soul: A 'Hermetic' Perspective from Marburg (1612).- 12. The Galenic soul in the Renaissance.- 13. Anatomy and faculties of the soul in Servetus and Columbus.- 14. The Matter of Life. Theories of Spontaneous Generation in the Late Sixteenth-Century Italy.- 15. Van Helmont's theory of digestion and nutrition.- 16. Concoction, Transmutation, and Living Spirits: Francis Bacon's Experiments with Artificial Life.- 17. The Vegetative Functions of the Soul in Descartes's Meditations.- 18. (Failed) Ontological Revolutions. The Vegetative Soul in Guy de La Brosse, René Descartes, and Pierre Gassendi.- 19. Marin Cureau de la Chambre's Conception of the Vegetative Soul.- 20. Scholastic Cartesianism. Juan Caramuel and the Negation of the Vegetative Soul in his Cartesian Manuscript.- 21. Cartesianising Vegetative Souls: Hylarchic Principles and Plastic Natures in More and Cudworth.- 22. Re-Inventing the Vegetable Soul? More's Spirit of Nature and Cudworth's Plastic Nature Reconsidered.- 23. Vegetative Epistemology: the Cognitive Principles of Life in William Harvey and Francis Glisson.- 24. Plants and Brains: The Vegetative Soul and Its Links with the Imagination in Early Modern Medicine and Philosophy.- 25. The Vegetative Soul in Glisson's Natural Philosophy.- 26. Life as Vegetation. Limiting Cases and Theological Problems for Seventeenth-century Thinkers.- 27. An Alternative to the Vegetative Soul: Galen's Natural Spirit in the Late 17th-Century Medical Conception of Digestive Functions.- 28. The Notion of Vegetative Soul in the Leibniz-Stahl Controversy.- 29. Newton's 'Vegetative Spirit'.- 30. Beyond Structure: Vegetative Powers from Wolff to Hanov.- 31. The Role of Vegetative Powers in Animal Physiologies: Bichat's Order of Two Lives.

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