Life Concepts from Aristotle to Darwin: On Vegetable Souls

1. Vegetable Souls?                                                                                                                       

2. Greek Life - Psyche and Early Life-Concepts                                                  

3. Strangely Moved - Appetitive Souls in Plato                                                  

4. Three Causes in One - Biological Explanation in Aristotle                          

5. Life in Action - Nutritive Souls in Aristotle                                                                       

6. Plants versus Animals in Hellenistic Thought                                  

7. The Breath of Life - Nephesh in Hebrew Scriptures                                    

8. Life after Life - Spiritual Life in Christianity                                                   

9. Invisible Seeds - Life-Concepts in Augustine                                                 

10. Aristotle Returns - A Second Medieval Synthesis                                                      

11. Life Divided - Vegetable Life in Aquinas                        

12. Mechanism Displaces the Soul                                                                                           

13. Divided Hopes - Physics versus Metaphysics                                                              

14. Ghosts in the Machine - Vitalism                                      

15. The Same and Different - Early Theories of Evolution                                             

16.  Vegetable Significance - Evolution by Natural Selection                                        

17. "Vegetables" versus Modern Plants                                                                                

18. Counting Lives- Regulators and Replicators                                                  

19. What Can Be Revived (and What Cannot)