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Titre(s) : Anton Wilhelm Amo's philosophical dissertations on mind and body [Texte imprimé] / edited, translated, and with an introduction by Stephen Menn and Justin E. H. Smith
Publication : New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2020
Description matérielle : 240 pages ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Facing page translation with original Latin on the verso and English translations
on the rectos.
"Anton Wilhelm Amo (c. 1703 - after 1752) is the first modern African philosopher
to study and teach in a European university and write in the European philosophical
tradition. We give an extensive historical and philosophical introduction to Amo's
life and work, and provide Latin texts, with facing translations and explanatory notes,
of Amo's two philosophical dissertations, On the Impassivity of the Human Mind and
the Philosophical Disputation containing a Distinct Idea of those Things that Pertain
either to the Mind or to our Living and Organic Body, both published in 1734. The
Impassivity is an extended argument that the mind cannot be acted on, that sensation
is a being-acted-on by the sensed object, and therefore that sensation does not belong
to the mind, and must belong instead to the body The Distinct Idea works out the implications
for the mind's actions, and tries to show how the mind understands, wills, and effects
things through the body by 'intentions' which direct motions in our body intentionally
toward external things. Both dissertations try to show how far each type of human
act belongs to the mind, how far to the body, and expose and resolve earlier philosophers'
self-contradictions on these questions"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Menn, Stephen (1964-....). Éditeur scientifique
Smith, Justin E. H.. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Amo, Anton Wilhelm (1700?-1754)
Indice(s) Dewey :
199.6 (23e éd.) = Philosophie - Afrique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780197501627. - ISBN 0197501621. - ISBN 9780197501641 (erroné). - ISBN 9780197501658
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb465306442
Notice n° :
FRBNF46530644
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