Overview
- Covers an important, fundamental aspect of medieval and early modern thought in a new and enlightening way
- Discusses significant ideas from over 2000 years of Western thought
- The topic is covered from a variety of disciplinary angles
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind (SHPM, volume 15)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Text and Self-Perception
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Emotion
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Sex
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Front Matter
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Material Souls
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Keywords
- Plato on medicine
- Sex and religious doctrine
- Shakespeare and philosophy
- body and soul
- conjunction between the body and mind/soul
- corporeal, emotional, spiritual and intellectual
- early modern philosophy
- history of emotions
- history of ideas
- history of medicine
- history of science
- human life in the writing of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- medieval philosophy
- religious doctrine
About this book
This book examines the nexus between the corporeal, emotional, spiritual and intellectual aspects of human life as represented in the writing of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Authors from different fields examine not only the question of the body and soul (or body and mind) but also how this question fits into a broader framework in the medieval and early modern period. Concepts such as gender and society, morality, sexuality, theological precepts and medical knowledge are a part of this broader framework.
This discussion of ideas draws from over two thousand years of Western thought: from Plato in the fifth century BC and the fourth century Byzantine dialogues on the soul, to the philosophical and medical writings of the early 1700s.
There are four sections to this book: each section is based on where the authors have found a conjunction between the body and mind/soul. The work begins with a section on text and self-perception, which focuses on creative output from the period. The second conjunction is human emotions which are described in their social contexts. The third is sex, where the human body and mind are traditionally believed to meet. The fourth section, Material Souls, engages with bodies and other material aspects of existence perceived, studied or utilised as material signs of emotional and spiritual activity.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Conjunctions of Mind, Soul and Body from Plato to the Enlightenment
Editors: Danijela Kambaskovic
Series Title: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9072-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9071-0Published: 10 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0191-2Published: 22 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9072-7Published: 25 September 2014
Series ISSN: 1573-5834
Series E-ISSN: 2542-9922
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 421
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Philosophy of Mind