Jennifer Whiting

Body and Soul

Essays on Aristotle's Hylomorphism

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Produktbeschreibung

In Body and Soul: Essays on Aristotle's Hylomorphism, well-known scholar Jennifer Whiting gathers two sets of her previously published essays on Aristotle's hylomorphism, one focused on his conception of an animal's body as standing to its soul as matter (hulê) to form (morphê); the other focused on his conception of practical reason as standing to human desire as form to matter.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 163mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9780197666005
• ISBN-10: 0197666000
• Artikelnr.: 67779139

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Whiting is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. She has taught at Harvard, Cornell, and the University of Toronto (where she was Chancellor Jackman Professor of Philosophy). She has been a fellow at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and Cornell's Society for Humanities and has received fellowships from the ACLS, Howard Foundation, and NEH. In 2006, she received the Royal Society of Canada's Konrad Adenauer Research Award. Other essays by Whiting are collected in First, Second, and Other Selves: Essays on Friendship and Personal Identity (OUP 2016) and in Living Together: Essays on Aristotle's Ethics (OUP 2023)

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Acknowledgements
* Introduction
* 1. Form and Individuation in Aristotle
* 2. Aristotle on Form and Generation
* 3. Living Bodies
* 4. Metasubstance: Critical Notice of Frede-Patzig and Furth
* 5. Locomotive Soul: The Parts of Soul in Aristotle's Scientific Works
* 6. Hylomorphic Virtue: Cosmology, Embryology, and Moral Development
in Aristotle
* 7. Nicomachean Ethics VII.3 on Akratic Ignorance (with Martin
Pickavé)
* 8. The Lockeanism of Aristotle
* 9. The Mover(s) of Rational Animals: De Anima III.11 in context
* Reprint Information
* Indexes