Body and Soul in Ancient Philosophy

Published by De Gruyter 2009

Body and Soul in Ancient Philosophy

Edited by: Dorothea Frede and Burkhard Reis

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216523

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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 Hellenistic philosophers, that is the Stoics and the Epicureans.

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Dorothea Frede und Burkhard Reis, Universität Hamburg.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
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Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Presocratics
The Pythagorean conception of the soul from Pythagoras to Philolaus Carl Huffman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Das Pythagorasfragment des Xenophanes und die Frage nach der Kritik der Metempsychosenlehre Christian Schäfer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Empedocles and metempsychüsis: The critique of Diogenes of Oenoanda Brad Inwood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Heraclitus on measure and the explicit emergence of rationality Anthony A. Long Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Demokrits Seelenmodell und die Prinzipien der atomistischen Physik Georg Rechenauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
II. Plato
Three kinds of Platonic immortality David Sedley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
„Denn mit Menschen sprechen wir und nicht mit Göttern“. Platonische und epikureische epimeleia tês psychês Michael Erler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Die energeia des Philosophen – zur Einheit von literarischem Dialog und philosophischer Argumentation in Platons Phaidon Gyburg Radke-Uhlmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Die aretê des Leibes: Die Stellung der Gesundheit in Platons Güterlehre Jan Szaif Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
III. Aristotle
Körper und Geist bei Aristoteles – zum Problem des Funktionalismus Günther Patzig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
The priority of soul in Aristotle’s De anima: Mistaking categories? Christopher Shields Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Aristotle on desire and action David Charles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Aristoteles’ Zirbeldrüse? Zum Verhältnis von Seele und pneuma in Aristoteles’ Theorie der Ortsbewegung der Lebewesen Friedemann Buddensiek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Aporien in der aristotelischen Konzeption des Beherrschten und des Schlechten Ursula Wolf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
IV. Academy
How does the soul direct the body, after all? Traces of a dispute on mind-body relations in the Old Academy John Dillon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
V. Hellenism
Stoics on souls and demons: Reconstructing Stoic demonology Keimpe Algra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
Stoic souls in Stoic corpses Tad Brennan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
Galen and the Stoics: What each could learn from the other about embodied psychology Christopher Gill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409
Philosophical norms and political attachments: Cicero and Seneca Martha C. Nussbaum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425
VI. Philosophers of Early Christianity
Anima Christiana Jonathan Barnes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	447
Der Geist im vollkommenen Körper. Ein Gedankenexperiment in Augustins De civitate dei 22 Therese Fuhrer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	465
Die Auferstehung des Leibes Theo Kobusch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	493
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	511

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Languages: English, German
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 562
Keywords: Soul (Philosophy); Death (Philosophy)

eBook

Published: October 28, 2009
ISBN: 9783110216523

Hardcover

Published: November 16, 2009
ISBN: 9783110202366