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The Embodied Soul: Aristotelian Psychology and Physiology Medieval Europe between 1200 1420
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The Embodied Soul: Aristotelian Psychology and Physiology Medieval Europe between 1200 1420
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The Embodied Soul: Aristotelian Psychology and Physiology Medieval Europe between 1200 1420
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This book contains a collection of papers devoted to the problems of body, mind and soul in medieval Europe between 1200 and 1420. Modern discussions of the mind-body relationship seldom look back into the past further than the psycho-somatic dualism of Descartes which started the mechanistic approach in biology and medicine. The authors of the volume go beyond that fault line to investigate the tradition of medieval natural philosophy and its ancient sources and analyze the issues forming a borderland between physiology and psychology. They also demonstrate that the medieval tradition was rich and diverse for it offered a wide variety of the discussed problems as well as the methodological approaches. This volume is the first attempt to cover a diversity of topics and methods employed in the medieval debates on body, mind and soul as well as their interrelationships. The Embodied Soul is a must-have for all those interested in puzzling dilemmas of how a living organism functions and how its inner life can be explained as well as for all those interested in the history of thought in general.
Chapter 14 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Chapter 14 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.