Format:
240 Seiten
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24 cm
ISBN:
9780197501627
Uniform Title:
Philosophical dissertations on mind and body
Content:
"Anton Wilhelm Amo (c. 1703 - after 1752) is the first modern African philosopher to study and teach in a European university and write in the European philosophical tradition. We give an extensive historical and philosophical introduction to Amo's life and work, and provide Latin texts, with facing translations and explanatory notes, of Amo's two philosophical dissertations, On the Impassivity of the Human Mind and the Philosophical Disputation containing a Distinct Idea of those Things that Pertain either to the Mind or to our Living and Organic Body, both published in 1734. The Impassivity is an extended argument that the mind cannot be acted on, that sensation is a being-acted-on by the sensed object, and therefore that sensation does not belong to the mind, and must belong instead to the body The Distinct Idea works out the implications for the mind's actions, and tries to show how the mind understands, wills, and effects things through the body by 'intentions' which direct motions in our body intentionally toward external things. Both dissertations try to show how far each type of human act belongs to the mind, how far to the body, and expose and resolve earlier philosophers' self-contradictions on these questions"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references ([227]-234) and indexes
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Inaugural dissertation on the impassivity of the human mind (1734) : (Latin and English)
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Philosophical disputation containing a distinct idea of those thins that pertain either to the mind or to our living and organic body (1734) : (Latin and English)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780197501641
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Menn, Stephen Anton wilhelm amo's philosophical dissertations on mind and body New York : Oxford University Press, 2020
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Amo, Anton Wilhelm, 1703 - 1753 Anton Wilhelm Amo's philosophical dissertations on mind and body New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020 ISBN 9780197501658
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780197501641
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Keywords:
Amo, Anton Wilhelm 1703-1753
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Leib-Seele-Problem
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Seele
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Erkenntnistheorie
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Geschichte 1738
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Amo, Anton Wilhelm 1703-1753
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Philosophie
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Quelle
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Hochschulschrift
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Kommentar
Author information:
Amo, Anton Wilhelm 1703-1753
Author information:
Smith, Justin E. H. 1972-
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