EAN: 9783319960463

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This book traces the history of life-concepts with a focus on the vegetable souls of Aristotle investigating how they were interpreted and eventually replaced by evolutionary biology. Philosophers have long struggled with the relationship between physics physiology and psychology asking questions of organization purpose and agency. For two millennia the vegetable soul nutrition and reproduction were commonly used to understand basic life and connect it to higher animal and vegetable life. Cartesian dualism and mechanism destroyed this bridge and left biology without an organizing principle until Darwin. Modern biology parallels Aristotelian vegetable life-concepts but remains incompatible with the animal rational subjective and spiritual life-concepts that developed through the centuries. Recent discoveries call for a second look at Aristotle's ideas - though not their medieval descendants. Life remains an active chemical process whose cause identity and purpose is self-perpetuation.

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