Heat Pneuma and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 12 March 2020

The first volume to examine theories of soul in Greek philosophy using an approach drawn from the history of science.

• Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
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• Release Date : 01 January 1999

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

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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• Release Date : 07 December 2020

This volume is a detailed study of the concept of the nutritive capacity of the soul and its actual manifestation in living bodies (plants, animals, humans) in Aristotle and Aristotelianism.

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 27 May 2021

Comprehensive overview of all the key issues in Aristotle's biological works and their place within his broader philosophy and theology.

• Publisher : Springer Nature
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• Release Date : 21 June 2022

This book is devoted to the last part of Aristotle’s collection of short treatises known today as the Parva Naturalia, i.e. the treatise On Youth and Old Age,

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 03 June 2021

Re-examines the concept of immortality in ancient philosophy from the Presocratics to Augustine.

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 03 May 2022

Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts argues that the creation of the world in Genesis 1 and the story of the first humans in Genesis 2-3 both draw directly

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 11 May 2023

Why did some doctors in Classical Greece feel compelled to study the universe as a whole? How could cosmological principles be employed in clinical practice? This book explores the works

• Publisher : Springer Nature
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• Release Date : 25 May 2021

The volume analyzes the natural philosophical accounts and debates concerning the vegetative powers, namely nutrition, growth, and reproduction. While principally focusing on the early modern approaches to the lower functions

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 30 November 2020

This volume aims at exploring the ancient roots of ‘holistic’ approaches in the specific field of medicine and the life sciences, without, however, overlooking the larger theoretical implications of these