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- Heat, Pneuma, and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science
- Heat, Pneuma, and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- I Early Greek Philosophy and Medicine
- Chapter 1 Fire, Heat, and Motive Force in Early Greek Philosophy and Medicine
- Chapter 2 Parmenides on the Soul
- Chapter 3 The Spirit in the Flesh: Empedocles on Embodied Soul
- Chapter 4 Out of Thin Air? Diogenes on Causal Explanation
- Chapter 5 Soul, Life, and Nutrition in the Timaeus
- Chapter 6 De spiritu on Heat and Its Roles in the Formation, Composition, and Activities of Animals
- II Aristotle
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index
Chapter 4 - Out of Thin Air? Diogenes on Causal Explanation
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 February 2020
- Heat, Pneuma, and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science
- Heat, Pneuma, and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- I Early Greek Philosophy and Medicine
- Chapter 1 Fire, Heat, and Motive Force in Early Greek Philosophy and Medicine
- Chapter 2 Parmenides on the Soul
- Chapter 3 The Spirit in the Flesh: Empedocles on Embodied Soul
- Chapter 4 Out of Thin Air? Diogenes on Causal Explanation
- Chapter 5 Soul, Life, and Nutrition in the Timaeus
- Chapter 6 De spiritu on Heat and Its Roles in the Formation, Composition, and Activities of Animals
- II Aristotle
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index
Summary
Reece discusses Diogenes of Apollonia’s claim that “all existing things are differentiated from the same thing and are the same thing” (DK 64B2, Simp. Phys. 151.31–32), namely air. He examines Diogenes’ principle that causal interaction and change require some sort of uniformity among the relata, and considers the questions which this principle raises.
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- Heat, Pneuma, and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science , pp. 106 - 120Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020