Body and soul essays on Aristotle's hylomorphism / Jennifer Whiting.
| Author/creator | Whiting, Jennifer |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2023] |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Contents | v. 1. Body and soul -- v. 2. Living together |
| Abstract | "Essays on Aristotle's "hylomorphism" - i.e., his conception of an organism's body as standing to its soul as matter (hulê) to form (morphê). Common readings - that there is only one form per species and that matter is what distinguishes individuals within a species from one another - are rejected in favor of the view that each member of a biological species has its own numerically distinct form. Original grounds are given for Aristotle's conception of soul as "the form and essence" of an organic body: he thinks it needed to account for the distinction between generation and destruction simpliciter and the mere alteration of existing stuff. The compatibility of this with Aristotle's conception of matter as the substratum of coming-to-be and passing-away is defended by appeal to a distinction between functionally defined organic parts (such as eyes) and the elements that constitute them. An original reading of the perceiving part of soul as one with the desiring part is given and asymmetries afforded by Aristotle's teleology explored. "Normative" cases (where formal explanations dominate) are contrasted with "defective" ones (where matter is incompletely "mastered" by form), with special attention to akratic subjects: their desires are not fully mastered by practical reason, which stands in normative cases as form to matter. The role played by Aristotle's conception of soul in his account of rational agency is employed against the dogma that he lacked the allegedly "modern" conception of "self" found in Locke and an original reading of Locke's account of personal identity is developed"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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| Issued in other form | Print version: Whiting, Jennifer. Body and soul New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2023] 9780197666005 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023004939 |
| ISBN | 9780190063160 |
| ISBN | (v. 1 ; hb) |
| ISBN | 9780197666029 (v. 1 ; epub) |
| ISBN | 9780197666036 |
| ISBN | 9780197682708 (v. 2 ; epub) |
| ISBN | (v. 2 ; hb) |
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