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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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2024.
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Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ;
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Call Number: QP360
- Front Matter
- Preliminary Material /
- Michele Meroni
- Copyright Page /
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- Chapter 1 A Matter of Principles: The Epistemic Status of Medicine in Albert's Early Theology and Aristotelian Paraphrases /
- Michele Meroni
- Part 1 Spirits of Life
- Chapter 2 Vita abstrahitur a vegetatione : Spirit and Albert's Emanative Psychology of Life /
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- Chapter 3 Spirit, Generation, and Natural Teleology-Part 1: Human Generation /
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- Chapter 4 Spirit, Generation, and Natural Teleology-Part 2: Animal, Plant, and Spontaneous Generation /
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- Chapter 5 Spirit, Radical Moisture, and Longevity in Living Beings /
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- Part 2 Spirits of Perception
- Chapter 6 Spirit and potentiae apprehensivae deforis : the Psychophysiology of Sense Perception and Common Sense /
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- Chapter 7 Animal Spirits and Internally Apprehensive Powers ( potentiae apprehensivae deintus )-Part 1: Estimation and Memory /
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- Chapter 8 Animal Spirits and Internally Apprehensive Powers ( potentiae apprehensivae deintus )-Part 2: Sleep, Dreams, and Prophecy /
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- Final Remarks /
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- Back Matter
- Bibliography /
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