Partitioning the Soul: Debates from Plato to Leibniz: 22 (Topoi - Berlin Studies of the Ancient World/Topoi - Berliner Studien der Alten Welt) - Softcover

Does the soul have parts? What kind of parts? And how do all the parts make together a whole? Many ancient, medieval and early modern philosophers discussed these questions, thus providing a mereological analysis of the soul. The eleven chapters reconstruct and critically examine radically different theories. They make clear that the question of how a single soul can have an internal complexity was a crucial issue for many classical thinkers.

Klaus Corcilius, University of California, Berkeley, USA; Dominik Perler, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin.