Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy

Brad Inwood, James Warren

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781108485821
• eBook ISBN: 9781108624534
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Ancient & Classical Philosophy

Philosophers and doctors from the period immediately after Aristotle down to the second century CE were particularly focussed on the close relationships of soul and body; such relationships are particularly intimate when the soul is understood to be a material entity, as it was by Epicureans and Stoics; but even Aristotelians and Platonists shared the conviction that body and soul interact in ways that affect the well-being of the living human being. These philosophers were interested in the nature of the soul, its structure, and its powers. They were also interested in the place of the soul within a general account of the world. This leads to important questions about the proper methods by which we should investigate the nature of the soul and the appropriate relationships among natural philosophy, medicine, and psychology. This volume, part of the Symposium Hellenisticum series, features ten scholars addressing different aspects of this topic.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Hellenistic Medicine, Strato of Lampsacus, and Aristotle’s Theory of Soul
• Chapter 2 Herophilus and Erasistratus on the Hēgemonikon
• Chapter 3 Galen on Soul, Mixture and Pneuma
• Chapter 4 The Partition of the Soul: Epicurus, Demetrius Lacon, and Diogenes of Oinoanda
• Chapter 5 Cosmic and Individual Soul in Early Stoicism
• Chapter 6 Soul, Pneuma, and Blood: The Stoic Conception of the Soul
• Chapter 7 The Platonic Soul, from the Early Academy to the First Century ce
• Chapter 8 Cicero on the Soul’s Sensation of Itself: Tusculans 1.49–76
• Bibliography
• Index Locorum
• Subject Index