Anton Wilhelm Amo's Philosophical Dissertations on Mind and Body

Herausgeber: Smith, Justin E H; Menn, Stephen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides the original Latin texts with new explanatory annotated translations of two philosophical works by Anton Wilhelm Amo (c.1703-after 1752), the first African philosopher in early modern Europe. It also includes an extensive introduction intended to help readers contextualize and engage with his philosophical ideas and their historical and intellectual background and significance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 154mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780197668016
• ISBN-10: 0197668011
• Artikelnr.: 66170044

Autorenporträt

Stephen Menn is James McGill Professor of Philosophy at McGill University in Montreal and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Justin E. H. Smith is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Paris.

Inhaltsangabe

* I. Introduction
* 1. The Life of Anton Wilhelm Amo
* 2. The History of Amo Reception
* 3. The Political and Intellectual Context at Halle and Wittenberg
* 4. On Dissertations and Disputations, and Amo's Two Dissertations
* 5. Ancient and Modern Debates on Action and Passion and on Sensation
* 6. The Argument of the Impassivity and the Distinct Idea
* II. Note on the Text and Translation of Amo's Dissertations
* III. Inaugural Dissertation on the Impassivity of the Human Mind
(1734) (Latin and English)
* IV. Philosophical Disputation Containing a Distinct Idea of those
Things that Pertain either to the Mind or to Our Living and Organic
Body (1734) (Latin and English)
* V. Bibliography