Overview
- Offers new insights into the workings of the human soul and the philosophical conception of the mind
- Examines issues ranging from Socrates to Aristotle, and beyond, in connection with modern psychology
- Details new approaches to Platonic and Aristotelian psychology and action theory
Part of the book series: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind (SHPM, volume 20)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Plato, Aristotle, and Commentators on Aristotle
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Ancient Philosophy of Mind
- City and Individual
- Immortality of the Soul
- Models of Mind
- Perception, Thought, Knowledge
- Platonic and Aristotelian Psychology
- socrates human soul
- Aristotle modern psychology
- Socrates modern psychology
- Platonic psychology action theory
- Aristotelian psychology action theory
- Peripatetic traditions psychology
- ancient Greece immaterial substance
- somatic conception of the soul
- psychological physicalism
- immaterialist soul-theory
- moral learning
- psychic phenomena
- Plato psychology
- Aristotle psychology
About this book
The papers present theoretical discussions on moral and psychological issues ranging from Socrates to Aristotle, and beyond, in connection with modern psychology. Coverage includes moral learning and the fruitfulness of punishment, human motivation, emotions as psychic phenomena, and more.
Some of these topics directly stemmed from the Socratic dialectical experience and its tragic outcome, whereas others found their way through a complex history of refinements, disputes, and internal critique.
The contributors present the gradual unfolding of these central themes through a close inspection of the relevant Ancient texts. They deliver awide-ranging survey of some central and mutually related topics. In the process, readers will learn new approaches to Platonic and Aristotelian psychology and action theory. This book will appeal to graduate students and researchers in Ancient philosophy. Any scholar with a general interest in the history of ideas will also find it a valuable resource.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Yasuhira Y. Kanayama is full professor and researcher at Nagoya University (Japan). His main interest lies in Plato’s epistemology and methodology, and also in Ancient Scepticism. He has published numerous papers especially on Plato, and Japanese translations of all the works of Sextus Empiricus (with Mariko Kanayama), Aristotle, On Coming-to-be and Passing-away, and of such academic books as A.A. Long, Hellenistic Philosophy, and J. Barnes and J. Annas, The Modes of Scepticism.
Jorge Mittelmann is associate professor and researcher at the Philosophy Institute, University of the Andes (Chile). His research is centered on Aristotle’s psychology (and its reception within the Peripatetic and Neoplatonic traditions), logic and ontology. He has published several papers and chapters of books on these and other related topics as well as an annotated Spanish translation of Aristotle’s Categories and On Interpretation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Soul and Mind in Greek Thought. Psychological Issues in Plato and Aristotle
Editors: Marcelo D. Boeri, Yasuhira Y. Kanayama, Jorge Mittelmann
Series Title: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78547-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78546-2Published: 15 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08727-2Published: 11 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78547-9Published: 06 June 2018
Series ISSN: 1573-5834
Series E-ISSN: 2542-9922
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 251
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Mind, History of Psychology, Classical Studies, Classical Philosophy, History of Philosophy