Gad Freudenthal

Aristotle's Theory of Material Substance

Heat and Pneuma, Form and Soul

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For quite a while I have not read a book that contributed so much to my understanding of Aristotle.' Early Science and Medicine

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This book offers an original new account of one of Aristotle's central doctrines. Freudenthal He recreates from Aristotle's writings a more complete theory of material substance which is able to explain the problematical areas of the way matter organizes itself and the persistence of matter, to show that the hitherto ignored concept of vital heat is as central in explaining material substance as soul or form.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 355g
• ISBN-13: 9780198238645
• ISBN-10: 0198238649
• Artikelnr.: 22420742

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
1. Vital Heat in the Physico-Physiological Theory of Persistence and of Higher Soul Functions
2. The Roots of Aristotle's Vital Heat: The De Philosophia and Kindred Presocratic Doctrines
3. Soul, Vital Heat, and Connate Pneuma
4. The Chemistry of Cohesion and of Decay
Conclusion
Bibliography
Indexes