Book ID: CBB577570096

Cultural Anatomies of the Heart in Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, and Harvey (2018)

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Boyle, Marjorie O'Rourke (Author)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 199
Language: English

This book probes beneath modern scientific and sentimental concepts of the heart to discover its past mysteries. Historical hearts evidenced essential aspects of human existence that still endure in modern thought and experience of political community, psychological mentality, and physical vitality. Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle revises ordinary assumptions about the heart with original interdisciplinary research on religious beliefs and theological and philosophical ideas. Her book uncovers the thought of Aristotle, William Harvey, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and John Calvinas it relates to the heart. It analyzes Augustine’s outlaw heart in cultural deviance from biblical law; Aquinas’s problematic argument for the permanence of the natural law in the heart; and Calvin’s advocacy for an affective heart re-created by the Spirit from its fallen nature. This book of cultural anatomies is the climax of her dozen years of publications on the heart.

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Review Davide Cellamare (2019) Review of "Cultural Anatomies of the Heart in Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, and Harvey". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (pp. 446-448). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Boyle, Marjorie O'Rourke
Shillito, Alex Benjamin
Wang, Xiaona
Wilson, Derek K.
Smith, C. U. M.
Gonzalez-Crussi, F.
Concepts
Heart
Science and religion
Science and culture
Circulation of the blood
Science, general histories
Medicine
Time Periods
17th century
Early modern
Medieval
16th century
Ancient
Places
Great Britain
England
London (England)
Europe
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