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Grassi, Martín
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dc.date.available
2022-09-20T00:56:50Z
dc.date.issued
2020-06
dc.identifier.citation
Grassi, Martín; Self-organized bodies, between Politics and Biology. A political reading of Aristotle’s concepts of Soul and Pneuma; Nicolaus Copernicus University; Scientia et Fides; 8; 1; 6-2020; 123-139
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2300-7648
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http://hdl.handle.net/11336/169424
dc.description.abstract
The idea of a self-organized system brings both political and biological discourses together, for they both aim at explaining how a certain compound can achieve self-unity out of plurality. Whereas biological metaphors in politics have been much examined, political metaphors in biology have not. In this paper I intend to show how political metaphors can enlighten biological discourses, taking the work of Aristotle as a case-study. The relationship between the main elements of a living-body could be better understood within a political scheme: the soul rules over the body through pneuma, its prime minister. This scheme entails, thus, to re-examine Aristotle’s definition of soul in the light of the key concept of pneuma, and to replace the hylemorphic explanation with a triadic one. On the one hand, soul is the entelecheia of the body as it keeps both the form and the end of the organism, which is its unity. On the other hand, the moving-efficacious principle that performs unity by circulating through the body, and by linking the body to its environment is pneuma. Therefore, the political formula: “the king does not govern” could shed light upon the structure of the living body: whereas the soul rules the body, pneuma governs it. Although Aristotle does not build his biology upon political concepts, metaphors are already there, shaping his explanations, within the bio-theo-political paradigm of autarchy.
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application/pdf
dc.language.iso
eng
dc.publisher
Nicolaus Copernicus University
dc.rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/ar/
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Self-organization
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System
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Government
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Circulation
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Autarchy
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Filosofía, Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia y la Tecnología
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Filosofía, Ética y Religión
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HUMANIDADES
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dc.title
Self-organized bodies, between Politics and Biology. A political reading of Aristotle’s concepts of Soul and Pneuma
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo
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info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.date.updated
2022-09-19T15:01:38Z
dc.identifier.eissn
2353-5636
dc.journal.volume
8
dc.journal.number
1
dc.journal.pagination
123-139
dc.journal.pais
Polonia
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dc.journal.ciudad
Toruń
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Fil: Grassi, Martín. Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Buenos Aires. Centro de Estudios Filosóficos "Eugenio Pucciarelli"; Argentina. Universitat Bonn; Alemania. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
dc.journal.title
Scientia et Fides
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info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/article/view/SetF.2020.005
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info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/https://doi.org/10.12775/SetF.2020.005
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