Body and Soul

Essays on Aristotle's Hylomorphism

Jennifer Whiting

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Oxford University Press Inc
04 December 2023

Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Ethics & moral philosophy

Body and Soul: Essays on Aristotle's Hylomorphism is one of three volumes collecting previously published essays by

Jennifer Whiting.

This volume contains two sets of essays, one centered on Aristotle's account of an animal's body as standing to its soul as matter (hulê) to form (morphê), the other exploring Aristotle's conception of practical reason as the proper form of human desire.

In the first set Whiting presents Aristotle's conception of the soul as the form and essence of an organic (and so living) body as part of his solution to Presocratic puzzles about whether there is a real (and not simply conventional) distinction between the coming-to-be (or passing-away) of an individual substance and what is merely the alteration or rearrangement of pre-existing stuffs. The solution also involves taking each individual animal within a species to have its own numerically distinct

By: Jennifer Whiting
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 163mm, Width: 238mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780197666005
ISBN 10: 0197666000
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 04 December 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Form and Individuation in Aristotle 2. Aristotle on Form and Generation 3. Living Bodies 4. Metasubstance: Critical Notice of Frede-Patzig and Furth 5. Locomotive Soul: The Parts of Soul in Aristotle's Scientific Works 6. Hylomorphic Virtue: Cosmology, Embryology, and Moral Development in Aristotle 7. Nicomachean Ethics VII.3 on Akratic Ignorance (with Martin Pickavé) 8. The Lockeanism of Aristotle 9. The Mover(s) of Rational Animals: De Anima III.11 in context Reprint Information Indexes

Jennifer Whiting is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. She has taught at Harvard, Cornell, and the University of Toronto (where she was Chancellor Jackman Professor of Philosophy). She has been a fellow at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and Cornell's Society for Humanities and has received fellowships from the ACLS, Howard Foundation, and NEH. In 2006, she received the Royal Society of Canada's Konrad Adenauer Research Award. Other essays by Whiting are collected in First, Second, and Other Selves: Essays on Friendship and Personal Identity (OUP 2016) and in Living Together: Essays on Aristotle's Ethics (OUP 2023)

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Body and Soul

Essays on Aristotle's Hylomorphism

Jennifer Whiting

$233

Hardback

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