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...

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Main Author: Meroni, Michele (Author)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.

Series: Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; 136.

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505 0 |t Front Matter -- Preliminary Material /  |r Michele Meroni -- Copyright Page /  |r Michele Meroni -- Chapter 1 A Matter of Principles: The Epistemic Status of Medicine in Albert's Early Theology and Aristotelian Paraphrases /  |r Michele Meroni -- Part 1 Spirits of Life -- Chapter 2 Vita abstrahitur a vegetatione : Spirit and Albert's Emanative Psychology of Life /  |r Michele Meroni -- Chapter 3 Spirit, Generation, and Natural Teleology-Part 1: Human Generation /  |r Michele Meroni -- Chapter 4 Spirit, Generation, and Natural Teleology-Part 2: Animal, Plant, and Spontaneous Generation /  |r Michele Meroni -- Chapter 5 Spirit, Radical Moisture, and Longevity in Living Beings /  |r Michele Meroni -- Part 2 Spirits of Perception -- Chapter 6 Spirit and potentiae apprehensivae deforis : the Psychophysiology of Sense Perception and Common Sense /  |r Michele Meroni -- Chapter 7 Animal Spirits and Internally Apprehensive Powers ( potentiae apprehensivae deintus )-Part 1: Estimation and Memory /  |r Michele Meroni -- Chapter 8 Animal Spirits and Internally Apprehensive Powers ( potentiae apprehensivae deintus )-Part 2: Sleep, Dreams, and Prophecy /  |r Michele Meroni -- Final Remarks /  |r Michele Meroni -- Back Matter -- Bibliography /  |r Michele Meroni. 
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