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Darrera modificació: 2019-12-01
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Bigotti, Fabrizio, Physiology of the Soul: Mind, Body and Matter in the Galenic Tradition of the Late Renaissance (1550-1630), Turnhout, Brepols (The Age of Descartes, 3), 2019, 366 pp., il·l.
- Resum
- The book looks at the ways in which physicians and philosophers developed Galen's philosophical legacy at the end of the Renaissance, and shows how their reading of classical medical texts moved beyond accepted patterns and conventions. By challenging a traditional historiographical account that described Renaissance Galenism in terms of decline and fall, this study argues for a new assessment of Galen's legacy, also read through the lens of those who opposed or reacted critically to it and thus contributed to the shaping of important aspects of the early modern debate on anthropology, ethics, psychology and even quantified experimentation. More generally, this study offers a contribution to the ongoing debate on the role and value of medical history, arguing in favour of the concept of 'historical translatability' in balancing the longue durée of traditions with the chaotic interactions of individual thinkers.
Conté:
— Introduction
— Part One: Premises
* Chapter One: Body and Anatomy in the Galenic Tradition
The Reflourishing of Anatomical Studies -- Questions of Method -- Soul and Anatomy -- Materia sentiens -- Generation and Essence -- Galenic Anthropology -- Alexandrianism and Galenism
* Chapter Two: The Soul, A Physical Question
The Seat of the Rational Soul -- The Brain: Form and Function -- Sensus communis -- The Relation between the Whole and Its Parts -- Vexatae quaestiones -- Innate Heat -- A Late-Renaissance Polemic: Cesare Cremonini and Pompeo Caimo -- Medicine for the Soul and Treatment for the Passions
— Part Two: Developments
* Chapter Three: From Galen to Huarte: The Quod animi mores and the 'Theory of Ingenium'
Themes and Arguments in the Quod animi mores -- Constitution, Typology, and Physiognomy -- Analogy and Consecution: An Advanced Model -- Juan Huarte's Examen de ingenios (1575) -- Natura facit habilem -- Intuition and Genius
Principles of Eugenics -- From mens to ingenium
* Chapter Four: The Matter of the Spirit
Antonio Persio's Trattato dell'ingegno dell'huomo (1576) -- From Galenism to Naturalism: Agostino Doni's De natura hominis libri duo (1581) -- Naturalism and Medicine in Bernardino Telesio's Quod animal universum (1590) -- The 'Two Souls' in Telesio's Philosophy -- Spiritus ingenium est: From Physiology to Ethics -- Eustachio Rudio's Liber de anima (1611)
Heat and Life -- The Vegetable - Animal Continuum -- Essence, Quality, and Degree
— Part Three: Reactions and Consequences
* Chapter Five: Passion and Pathology: The Response of Aristotelianism
The Individual, Nature, and Character in Francesco Piccolomini's Universa philosophia de moribus (1583) -- Causal Consecution -- Natural Inclination and Pathology -- Cesare Cremonini's Quaestio: utrum animi mores corporis sequantur temperamentum -- Lectures I-III -- Lectures IV-V -- Lectures VI-VII -- Forms of Causality: The Model of Intrinsic Finality -- Giovanni Battista Persona's Commentary on the Quod animi mores (1602) -- The Ambiguous Relation between Mind and Brain -- 'Removing the Animal'
* Chapter Six: Beyond Tradition: Santorio and Descartes
The Concept of Equilibrium Transformed: Santorio -- From Degree to Quantity — Differences and Analogies: Santorio, Galileo, and Alexandrian Science --Substance and Quality in the Methodus vitandorum errorum omnium (1603) -- Situs, Figura, Numerus -- The Body and the Machine -- Sources and Problems in Descartes' Medicine -- Experiment or Observation? Descartes on the Movement of the Heart and the Arteries -- Unsettling Similarities -- Descartes and Naturalism: A Project in Common -- Vestiges of Animality
— Final Remarks: The Role of Tradition in Medical Thought
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Medicina - Psicologia i psiquiatria
Medicina - Dietètica i higiene
Galè
Recepció
- Notes
- Informació de l'editor
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