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Partitioning the Soul - Debates from Plato to Leibniz (Hardcover, Digital original)
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Partitioning the Soul - Debates from Plato to Leibniz (Hardcover, Digital original)
Series: Topoi - Berlin Studies of the Ancient World/Topoi - Berliner Studien der Alten Welt
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Does the soul have parts? What kind of parts? And how do all the
parts make together a whole? Many ancient, medieval and early
modern philosophers discussed these questions, thus providing a
mereological analysis of the soul. Their starting point was a
simple observation: we tend to describe the soul of human beings by
referring to different types of activities (perceiving, imagining,
thinking, etc.). Each type of activity seems to be produced by a
special part of the soul. But how can a simple, undivided soul have
parts? Classical thinkers gave radically different answers to this
question. While some claimed that there are indeed parts, thus
assigning an internal complexity to the soul, others emphasized
that there can only be a plurality of functions that should not be
conflated with a plurality of parts. The eleven chapters
reconstruct and critically examine these answers. They make clear
that the metaphysical structure of the soul was a crucial issue for
ancient, medieval and early modern philosophers.
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