Heat, pneuma, and soul in ancient philosophy and science / edited by Hynek Bartoš, Colin Guthrie King.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bartoš, Hynek, editor.

King, Colin Guthrie, 1972- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy and science--Greece--History--To 1500.

Philosophy and science.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Science, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 380 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

The conceptualization of the vital force of living beings as a kind of breath and heat is at least as old as Homer. The assumptions that life and living things were somehow causally related to 'heat' and 'breath' (pneuma) would go on to inform much of ancient medicine and philosophy. This is the first volume to consider the relationship of the notions of heat, breath (pneuma), and soul in ancient Greek philosophy and science from the Presocratics to Aristotle. Bringing together specialists both on early Greek philosophy and on Aristotle, it brings an approach drawn from the history of science to the study of both fields. The chapters give fresh and detailed interpretations of the theory of soul in Heraclitus, Empedocles, Parmenides, Diogenes of Appolonia, and Democritus, as well as in the Hippocratic Corpus, Plato's Timaeus, and various works of Aristotle.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Feb 2020).

ISBN:

1-108-75786-3

1-108-75645-X

1-108-65171-2