Spruit, Leen (Author)
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Volume: 23
Issue: 2
Pages: 753-765
This essay analyses Sebastiano Bartoli's views on the principle of life and the human soul, pointing out the conceptual background in Joan Baptista van Helmont's thought, sketching Bartoli's career in outline, and presenting an analytical discussion of his main physiological and psychological ideas in the "Exercitationes paradoxicae." In alternative to the traditional doctrines on the origin of life and the seat of the soul, he argued that (sensitive) life cannot be reduced to heat, temperaments, or a heap of atoms, but that it depends on a vital, 'spiritual' principle, the archeus or sensitive soul, which is essentially light, positioned in the geometrical center of the body.
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