Organism, Medicine, and Metaphysics Essays in Honor of Hans Jonas on his 75th Birthday, May 10, 1978
This Festschrift is presented to Professor Hans Jonas on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, as affirmation of the contributors' respect and admiration. As a volume in the series 'Philosophy and Medicine' the contributions not only reflect certain interests and pursuits of the...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1978, 1978
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1978 |
| Series: | Philosophy and Medicine
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Prometheus Unbound? A New World in the Making
- Section I / Humanity, History, and Medicine
- The System of Anthropina
- Philosophy and Medicine in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
- Care of the Healthy and the Sick from the Attending Physician’s Perspective: Envisioned and Actual (1977)
- The Conflict Between the Desire to Know and the Need to Care for the Patient
- The Execution of Euthanasia: The Right of the Dying to a Re-Formed Health Care Context
- Section II / Philosophy of Organism
- Teleology and Darwin’s The Origin of Species: Beyond Chance and Necessity?
- Individuals and Their Kinds: Aristotelian Foundations of Biology
- The Organism According to Process Philosophy
- Whitehead and Jonas: On Biological Organisms and Real Individuals
- The Redefinition of Death
- Section III/ Science, Infirmity, and Metaphysics
- Descartes and Mastery of Nature
- The Philosopher and the Scientist: Comments on the Perception of the Exact Sciences in the Work of Hans Jonas
- Life, Disease, and Death: A Metaphysical Viewpoint
- Ontology and the Body: A Reflection
- Intentionality and the Mind/Body Problem
- Epilogue
- Metaphor and the Ineffable: Illumination on “The Nobility of Sight”
- Bibliography of the Works of Hans Jonas
- Notes on Contributors