Healing the Soul by Transforming the Body: A New Way of Framing Avicenna’s Science of the Soul
Although scholars acknowledged that Avicenna’s science of the soul stands at the crossroads between natural philosophy and metaphysics, thus combining an overall physical investigation of all sublunary souls with a trans-physical (or proto-metaphysical) inquiry into the human rational soul, this pap...
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| description | Although scholars acknowledged that Avicenna’s science of the soul stands at the crossroads between natural philosophy and metaphysics, thus combining an overall physical investigation of all sublunary souls with a trans-physical (or proto-metaphysical) inquiry into the human rational soul, this paper aims to show a further disciplinary entanglement within Avicenna’s science of the soul, which features in the aforementioned physical investigation and helps to frame it, that is, the interaction between natural philosophy and medicine. Despite the strict division between these two disciplines in Avicenna’s system of science, medicine seems to decisively contribute to accounting for the bodily functions of living beings. For this reason, Avicenna refers to medicine several times in his exposition on the soul. This paper approaches the disciplinary entanglement between natural philosophy and medicine in psychology by focusing on the medical concept of pneuma (rūḥ), which prominently features in the exposition of three main issues in psychology, i.e., body ensoulment, powers differentiation, and emotions. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1710692026-01-29T07:09:50Z Healing the Soul by Transforming the Body: A New Way of Framing Avicenna’s Science of the Soul Alpina, Tommaso Avicenna Galen Aristotle soul body pneuma temperament EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science Although scholars acknowledged that Avicenna’s science of the soul stands at the crossroads between natural philosophy and metaphysics, thus combining an overall physical investigation of all sublunary souls with a trans-physical (or proto-metaphysical) inquiry into the human rational soul, this paper aims to show a further disciplinary entanglement within Avicenna’s science of the soul, which features in the aforementioned physical investigation and helps to frame it, that is, the interaction between natural philosophy and medicine. Despite the strict division between these two disciplines in Avicenna’s system of science, medicine seems to decisively contribute to accounting for the bodily functions of living beings. For this reason, Avicenna refers to medicine several times in his exposition on the soul. This paper approaches the disciplinary entanglement between natural philosophy and medicine in psychology by focusing on the medical concept of pneuma (rūḥ), which prominently features in the exposition of three main issues in psychology, i.e., body ensoulment, powers differentiation, and emotions. Published 2026-01-29T07:09:48Z 2026-01-29T07:09:48Z 2024-12-12 chapter 9788875903183 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/171069 eng Quaderni di Noctua image/jpeg application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://dx.doi.org/10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua7-4 https://dx.doi.org/10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua7-4 E-theca OnLineOpenAccess Edizioni Medical and Philosophical Perspectives on Illness and Disease in the Middle Ages E-theca OnLineOpenAccess Edizioni, Università degli Studi di Torino 10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua7-4 10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua7-4 9c743178-7a11-43f5-9c4d-07b93e99f80f 06e34257-d26f-4a71-955c-9459468137d7 9788875903183 E-theca OnLineOpenAccess Edizioni, Università degli Studi di Torino 7 108-131 Florence, Parma, Turin open access |
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