Life Concepts from Aristotle to Darwin: On Vegetable Souls

by Lucas John Mix

1. Vegetable Souls? 2. Greek Life - Psyche and Early Life-Concepts 3. Strangely Moved - Appetitive Souls in Plato 4. Three Causes in One - Biological Explanation in Aristotle 5. Life in Action - Nutritive Souls in Aristotle 6. Plants versus Animals in Hellenistic Thought 7. The Breath of Life - Nephesh in Hebrew Scriptures 8. Life after Life - Spiritual Life in Christianity 9. Invisible Seeds - Life-Concepts in Augustine 10. Aristotle Returns - A Second Medieval Synthesis 11. Life Divided - Vegetable Life in Aquinas 12

284 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2018

Reviews

[Zoë]

Very interesting and very useful (to me). However, I feel like the last couple of chapters could have strayed a bit farther from biology and focused on cultural ideas and spirituality. This definitely still exists today, despite whatever biology says. I think this would have been more in line with the book as it was before, but perhaps Mix always intended this to be an outline of the "scientific" ideas of souls, rather than a philosophical one.