Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 310 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780197666012
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0190063165
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0197666027
,
0197666035
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0197682707
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9780197666029
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9780197682708
Content:
"Essays on Aristotle's "hylomorphism" - i.e., his conception of an organism's body as standing to its soul as matter (hulê) to form (morphê). Common readings - that there is only one form per species and that matter is what distinguishes individuals within a species from one another - are rejected in favor of the view that each member of a biological species has its own numerically distinct form. Original grounds are given for Aristotle's conception of soul as "the form and essence" of an organic body: he thinks it needed to account for the distinction between generation and destruction simpliciter and the mere alteration of existing stuff. The compatibility of this with Aristotle's conception of matter as the substratum of coming-to-be and passing-away is defended by appeal to a distinction between functionally defined organic parts (such as eyes) and the elements that constitute them. An original reading of the perceiving part of soul as one with the desiring part is given and asymmetries afforded by Aristotle's teleology explored. "Normative" cases (where formal explanations dominate) are contrasted with "defective" ones (where matter is incompletely "mastered" by form), with special attention to akratic subjects: their desires are not fully mastered by practical reason, which stands in normative cases as form to matter. The role played by Aristotle's conception of soul in his account of rational agency is employed against the dogma that he lacked the allegedly "modern" conception of "self" found in Locke and an original reading of Locke's account of personal identity is developed"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780190063160
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780197666036
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780197666005
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199969678
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Whiting, Jennifer Body and soul New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2023 ISBN 9780197666005
Language:
English
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