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LIFE CONCEPTS FROM ARISTOTLE TO DARWIN - LUCAS ...

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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