Spirits of Life and Perception : Albert the Great's Early and Mature Psychophysiology in Light of His Arabic Sources /
Does a plant shrink at night and swell in the day, like an animal breathing in and out? For a long time, the Galenic concept of spiritus provided a causal explanation for human and animal life and perception. Albert the Great (1200-1280), whose honorific acknowledges among other things his pioneerin...
المؤلف الرئيسي:
التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني
اللغة: English
منشور في:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2024.
سلاسل:
Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ;
136.
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الوسوم: إضافة وسم
رقم الطلب: QP360
| الملخص: | Does a plant shrink at night and swell in the day, like an animal breathing in and out? For a long time, the Galenic concept of spiritus provided a causal explanation for human and animal life and perception. Albert the Great (1200-1280), whose honorific acknowledges among other things his pioneering work on biology, extended the concept to plants. This is only one of the remarkable concepts studied in this book, the first comparative study of Albert's concept of spiritus. It unveils the Arabic roots of his early psychophysiology and the original developments found in his mature Aristotelian paraphrases. |
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| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource (548 pages) : illustrations. |
| بيبلوغرافيا: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ردمك: | 9789004706743 |