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Vegetative powers [electronic resource] : the roots of life in Ancient, Medieval and Early modern natural philosophy / Fabrizio Baldassarri, Andreas Blank, editors.

Baldassarri, Fabrizio, editor.; Blank, Andreas, editor.
2021
B105.P535
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Title
Vegetative powers [electronic resource] : the roots of life in Ancient, Medieval and Early modern natural philosophy / Fabrizio Baldassarri, Andreas Blank, editors.
ISBN
9783030697099 (electronic bk.)
3030697096 (electronic bk.)
9783030697082
3030697088
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69709-9
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Cham : Springer, 2021.
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English
Description
1 online resource (xx, 459 pages) : illustrations.
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10.1007/978-3-030-69709-9 doi
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B105.P535
Dewey Decimal Classification
113
Summary
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 of the soul, readers will discover the roots of these approaches back to the Ancient times, as the volume highlights the role of three strands that help shape the study of life in the Medieval and early modern natural philosophies. From late antiquity to the early modern period, the vegetative soul and its cognate concepts have played a substantial role in specifying life, living functions, and living bodies, sometimes blurring the line between living and non-living nature, and, at other moments, resulting in a strong restriction of life to a mechanical system of operations and powers. Unearthing the history of the vegetative soul as a shrub of interconnected concepts, the 24 contributions of the volume fill a crucial gap in scholarship, ultimately outlining the importance of vegetal processes of incessant proliferation, generation, and organic growth as the roots of life in natural philosophical interpretations.
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Baldassarri, Fabrizio, editor.
Blank, Andreas, editor.
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Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ; 234.
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1. Introduction: Missing a Soul that Endows Bodies with Life
2. Souls, Parts of Soul, and Vegetation in Aristotle
3. The Vegetative Soul in the Neoplatonic Tradition
4. Galenic Anatomo-Physiology of the Vegetative Soul
5. Expanding the Parva Naturalia-Project: Albertus Magnus on nutrition
6. How to Explain Vegetative Functions of an Immaterial Soul?
7. Jesuit Vegetative Souls: Lessius and the Conimbricenses on men lowest functions
8. Towards the Elimination of the Anima Vegetativa: Some Intellectualistic Tendencies in the Jesuits Suárez and Arriaga
9. Daniel Sennert on the Vegetative Soul and its Powers
10. Nicolaus Taurellus on Forms, Vegetative Souls and the Question of Emergence
11. Generation and the Vegetative Soul: A Hermetic Perspective from Marburg (1612)
12. The Galenic soul in the Renaissance
13. Anatomy and faculties of the soul in Servetus and Columbus
14. The Matter of Life. Theories of Spontaneous Generation in the Late Sixteenth-Century Italy
15. Van Helmont's theory of digestion and nutrition
16. Concoction, Transmutation, and Living Spirits: Francis Bacon's Experiments with Artificial Life
17. The Vegetative Functions of the Soul in Descartes' Meditations
18. (Failed) Ontological Revolutions. The Vegetative Soul in Guy de La Brosse, René Descartes, and Pierre Gassendi
19. Marin Cureau de la Chambre Conception of the Vegetative Soul
20. Scholastic Cartesianism. Juan Caramuel and the Negation of the Vegetative Soul in his Cartesian Manuscript
21. Cartesianising Vegetative Souls: Hylarchic Principles and Plastic Natures in More and Cudworth
22. Re-Inventing the Vegetable Soul? More Spirit of Nature and Cudworth's Plastic Nature Reconsidered
23. Vegetative Epistemology: the Cognitive Principles of Life in William Harvey and Francis Glisson
24. Plants and Brains: The Vegetative Soul and Its Links with the Imagination in Early Modern Medicine and Philosophy
25. The Vegetative Soul in Glisson's Natural Philosophy
26. Life as Vegetation. Limiting Cases and Theological Problems for Seventeenth-century Thinkers
27. An Alternative to the Vegetative Soul: Galen's Natural Spirit in the Late 17th-Century Medical Conception of Digestive Functions
28. The Notion of Vegetative Soul in the Leibniz-Stahl Controversy
29. Newton's 'vegetative Spirit'
30. Beyond Structure: Vegetative Powers from Wolff to Hanov
31. The Role of Vegetative Powers in Animal Physiologies: Bichat's Order of Two Lives.

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