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Vegetative Powers

Part of the International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées Book Series (volume 234)

Editors: Baldassarri, Fabrizio; Blank, Andreas

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-69709-9

ISBN: 978-3-030-69708-2

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

May 26, 2021

1 - 10 of 25 Chapters

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Chapter 1Missing a Soul That Endows Bodies with Life: An Introduction

Baldassarri, Fabrizio; Blank, Andreas

Pages: 1 –12

[In the history of ideas, innumerable attempts to explain life and to define living activities have invoked the notion of the soul. Yet this theoretical entity seems to be an unfathomable thing. Difficulties beset the mere definition of it, and controversies span from whether the soul is a...
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Chapter 2Soul, Parts of the Soul, and the Definition of the Vegetative Capacity in Aristotle’s De anima

Corcilius, Klaus

Pages: 13 –34

[The aim of this chapter is to explain Aristotle’s definition of the vegetative part of the soul in the De anima from a methodological point of view. I discuss Aristotle’s conception of the soul and his conception of “parts of the soul” before I turn to his definition of the vegetative part of...
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Chapter 3Embodied Intelligent (?) Souls: Plants in Plato’s Timaeus

Carpenter, Amber D.

Pages: 35 –53

[In the Timaeus, plants are granted soul, and specifically the sort of soul capable of perception and desire. But perception, according to the Timaeus, requires the involvement of to phronimon. It seems to follow that plants must be intelligent. I argue that we can neither avoid granting plants...
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Chapter 4The Vegetative Soul in Galen

Vinkesteijn, Robert

Pages: 55 –72

[Galen of Pergamum developed a new notion of the vegetative soul as seated in the liver, in a synthetic appropriation of Platonic tripartition, Aristotelian hylomorphism, Hippocratic elemental theory and Hellenistic science. The traditional analogy between plant and human being receives a firmer...
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Chapter 5Avicenna on Vegetative Faculties and the Life of Plants

Fatigati, Michael

Pages: 73 –89

[This essay presents an overview of what Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d. 1037) has to say across his corpus about vegetative faculties and plant life. It begins with a look at more general concerns, including Avicenna’s efforts to enumerate various vegetative faculties according to sound principles, and...
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Chapter 6Can Plants Desire? Aspects of the Debate on desiderium naturale

Panarelli, Marilena

Pages: 91 –104

[During Antiquity and the Middle Ages, two opposite traditions – namely the Aristotelian and the Platonic – expressed antithetical positions regarding the question whether plants were able to desire. The issue in question is closely related to the question of the sense of plants and their...
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Chapter 7Disclosing the Hidden Life of Plants. Theories of the Vegetative Soul in Albert the Great’s De vegetabilibus et plantis

Cerrito, Amalia

Pages: 105 –122

[In his De vegetabilibus et plantis (ca. 1256), Albert the Great reorganizes the entire botanical knowledge of his time, creatively resorting to Aristotelian epistemic principles. Plant complex physiology is theoretically relevant for the theological-philosophical discourse. Nevertheless, plant...
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Chapter 8On the Natural Generation of Human Beings: The Vegetative Power in a Thought Experiment by Some Masters of Arts (1250-c. 1268)

Bernardini, Paola

Pages: 123 –137

[This paper focusses on a thought experiment devised by some Masters of Arts (John de Sècheville, De principiis naturae, 1956, 128–131; Anonymi Magistri Artium Quaestiones super librum de anima, ed. P. Bernardini, 2009, q. 60; Ps.-Petrus Guentin de Ortemberg, Quaestiones super Physicam, II, q. 1,...
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Chapter 9Thomas Aquinas on the Vegetative Soul

Pickavé, Martin

Pages: 139 –152

[This short chapter explores Aquinas’s teaching on the vegetative soul. At first glance, Aquinas does not seem too interested in the vegetative soul, and this type of soul certainly takes last rank compared with the sensory and the intellectual souls, which are of more relevance when it comes to...
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Chapter 10The Vegetative Powers of Human Beings: Late Medieval Metaphysical Worries

Klein, Martin

Pages: 153 –175

[In this chapter, I investigate the metaphysical assumptions that medieval thinkers considered necessary in order to integrate the vegetative powers and processes into their conception of human beings as composed of a material body and an immaterial soul. My aim is to show that vegetative powers...

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