The Faces of Simplicity in Descartes’s Soul

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Plato’s Divided Soul 15
5. Parts in Aristotle’s Definition of Soul: De Anima Books I and II 39
6. Walking and Talking: Reflections on Divisions of the Soul in Stoicism 63
7. Partitioning the Soul: Galen on the Anatomy of the Psychic Functions and Mental Illness 85
8. Parts of the Soul in Plotinus 107
9. Iamblichus, Proclus and Philoponus on Parts, Capacities and ousiai of the Soul and the Notion of Life 149
10. Ockham on Emotions in the Divided Soul 179
11. Virtual Presence: Psychic Mereology in Francisco Suárez 199
12. The Faces of Simplicity in Descartes’s Soul 219
13. Spinoza on the Unity of Will and Intellect 245
14. The Great Chain of Souls: Leibniz on Soul Unitarism and Soul Kinds 271
15. List of Contributors 299
16. Index of Names 301