Body and Soul: Essays on Aristotle's Hylomorphism is one of three
volumes collecting previously published essays by Jennifer Whiting.
This volume contains two sets of essays, one centered on
Aristotle's account of an animal's body as standing to its soul as
matter (hulê) to form (morphê), the other exploring Aristotle's
conception of practical reason as the proper form of human desire.
In the first set Whiting presents Aristotle's conception of the
soul as the form and essence of an organic (and so living) body as
part of his solution to Presocratic puzzles about whether there is
a real (and not simply conventional) distinction between the
coming-to-be (or passing-away) of an individual substance and what
is merely the alteration or rearrangement of pre-existing stuffs.
The solution also involves taking each individual animal within a
species to have its own numerically distinct “individual” form,
which (unlike species forms traditionally conceived) exists when
and only when it does. The remaining essays account for various
deficiencies in the lives of rational animals by appeal to the
explanatory asymmetries afforded by Aristotle's teleology, where
formal and final causes dominate when things go as they should
(teleologically speaking) go, and material-efficient causes
dominate when things go wrong. Just as Aristotle traces the birth
of females to the failure of menstrual fluid to be fully
“mastered” by the formal movements in the father's semen, so
too he traces akratic and other defective forms of action to the
failure of desires to be fully “mastered” by the activities of
reason. Whiting argues that phronêsis is on this account the
proper form of the desiring part of the soul, which (when things go
well) is one with the practically reasoning part.
General
| Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 2023 |
| Authors: |
Jennifer Whiting
(Distinguished Professor of Philosophy)
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
312 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-766600-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-19-766600-0 |
| Barcode: |
9780197666005 |
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