Body and soul in ancient philosophy / edited by Dorothea Frede and Burkhard Reis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gesellschaft fur antike Philosophie. Kongress (2nd : 2007 : University of Hamburg)

Contributor:

Frede, Dorothea, 1941-

Reis, Burkhard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mind and body--Congresses.

Mind and body.

Soul--Congresses.

Soul.

Philosophy, Ancient--Congresses.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (572 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The problem of body and soul has a long history that can be traced back to the beginnings of Greek culture. The existential question of what happened to the soul at the moment of death, whether and in what form there is life after death, and of the exact relationship between body and soul was answered in different ways in Greek philosophy, from the early days to Late Antiquity. The contributions in this volume not only do justice to the breadth of the topic, they also cover the entire period from the Pre-Socratics to Late Antiquity. Particular attention is paid to Plato, Aristotle and Hellenis

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

I. Presocratics

The Pythagorean conception of the soul from Pythagoras to Philolaus

Das Pythagorasfragment des Xenophanes und die Frage nach der Kritik der Metempsychosenlehre

Empedocles and metempsychüsis: The critique of Diogenes of Oenoanda

Heraclitus on measure and the explicit emergence of rationality

Demokrits Seelenmodell und die Prinzipien der atomistischen Physik

II. Plato

Three kinds of Platonic immortality

"Denn mit Menschen sprechen wir und nicht mit Göttern". Platonische und epikureische epimeleia tês psychês

Die energeia des Philosophen - zur Einheit von literarischem Dialog und philosophischer Argumentation in Platons Phaidon

Die aretê des Leibes: Die Stellung der Gesundheit in Platons Güterlehre

III. Aristotle

Körper und Geist bei Aristoteles - zum Problem des Funktionalismus

The priority of soul in Aristotle's De anima: Mistaking categories?

Aristotle on desire and action

Aristoteles' Zirbeldrüse? Zum Verhältnis von Seele und pneuma in Aristoteles' Theorie der Ortsbewegung der Lebewesen

Aporien in der aristotelischen Konzeption des Beherrschten und des Schlechten

IV. Academy

How does the soul direct the body, after all? Traces of a dispute on mind-body relations in the Old Academy

V. Hellenism

Stoics on souls and demons: Reconstructing Stoic demonology

Stoic souls in Stoic corpses

Galen and the Stoics: What each could learn from the other about embodied psychology

Philosophical norms and political attachments: Cicero and Seneca

VI. Philosophers of Early Christianity

Anima Christiana

Der Geist im vollkommenen Körper. Ein Gedankenexperiment in Augustins De civitate dei 22

Die Auferstehung des Leibes

Backmatter

Notes:

"This volume contains a collection of papers presented at the Second International Conference of the Gesellschaft fur antike Philosophie e.V. (GANPH) at the University of Hamburg from 18 to 21 July 2007"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612716690

9781282716698

1282716697

9783110216523

3110216523

OCLC:

558991462