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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 2 - Parmenides on the Soul
from I - Early Greek Philosophy and Medicine
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
Tor argues that Parmenides conceives of the soul as a hot, fiery, aethereal and divine thing, and that this notion plays an important role in his epistemology.
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- Heat, Pneuma, and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science , pp. 61 - 79Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020