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Life Concepts from Aristotle to Darwin - On Vegetable Souls (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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Life Concepts from Aristotle to Darwin - On Vegetable Souls (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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This book traces the history of life-concepts, with a focus on the
vegetable souls of Aristotle, investigating how they were
interpreted and eventually replaced by evolutionary biology.
Philosophers have long struggled with the relationship between
physics, physiology, and psychology, asking questions of
organization, purpose, and agency. For two millennia, the vegetable
soul, nutrition, and reproduction were commonly used to understand
basic life and connect it to "higher" animal and vegetable life.
Cartesian dualism and mechanism destroyed this bridge and left
biology without an organizing principle until Darwin. Modern
biology parallels Aristotelian vegetable life-concepts, but remains
incompatible with the animal, rational, subjective, and spiritual
life-concepts that developed through the centuries. Recent
discoveries call for a second look at Aristotle's ideas - though
not their medieval descendants. Life remains an active, chemical
process whose cause, identity, and purpose is self-perpetuation.
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