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Heat, Pneuma, and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science (Paperback)
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Heat, Pneuma, and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science (Paperback)
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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.
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