Aristotle's Theory of Material Substance Heat and Pneuma, Form and Soul

Name: Aristotle's Theory of Material Substance Heat and Pneuma, Form and Soul
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ISBN: 9780198238645

ISBN-10: 0198238649

ISBN-13: 9780198238645

Edition: 1999

Authors: Gad Freudenthal

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Gad Freudenthal offers an original new account of one of Aristotle's central doctrines, his theory of material substance. Freudenthal argues that Aristotle's concept of heat is a crucial but hitherto ignored part of this account. Aristotle's 'canonical', four-element theory of matter fails to explain the coming-to-be of material substances (the way matter becomes organized) and their persistence (why substances do not disintegrate into their components). Interpreters have highlighted Aristotle's claim that soul is the active cause of the coming-to-be and persistence of living beings. On the basis of dispersed remarks in Aristotle's writings Freudenthal argues that Aristotle in parallel also…

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List price: $72.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/22/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 247
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Introduction;



Vital Heat in the Physico-Physiological Theory of Persistence and of Higher Soul Functions



The Roots of Aristotle's Vital Heat: The De Philosophia and Kindred Presocratic Doctrines



Soul, Vital Heat, and Connate Pneuma



The Chemistry of Cohesion and of Decay


Conclusion


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