Self-organized bodies, between Politics and Biology. A political reading of Aristotle’s concepts of Soul and Pneuma

The idea of a self-organized system brings both political and biological discourses together, for they both aim at explaining how a certain compound can achieve self-unity out of plurality. Whereas biological metaphors in politics have been much examined, political metaphors in biology have not. In...

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Autor: Grassi, Martín
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/169424
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Self-organization
System
Government
Circulation
Autarchy
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spelling Self-organized bodies, between Politics and Biology. A political reading of Aristotle’s concepts of Soul and PneumaGrassi, MartínSelf-organizationSystemGovernmentCirculationAutarchyhttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6The idea of a self-organized system brings both political and biological discourses together, for they both aim at explaining how a certain compound can achieve self-unity out of plurality. Whereas biological metaphors in politics have been much examined, political metaphors in biology have not. In this paper I intend to show how political metaphors can enlighten biological discourses, taking the work of Aristotle as a case-study. The relationship between the main elements of a living-body could be better understood within a political scheme: the soul rules over the body through pneuma, its prime minister. This scheme entails, thus, to re-examine Aristotle’s definition of soul in the light of the key concept of pneuma, and to replace the hylemorphic explanation with a triadic one. On the one hand, soul is the entelecheia of the body as it keeps both the form and the end of the organism, which is its unity. On the other hand, the moving-efficacious principle that performs unity by circulating through the body, and by linking the body to its environment is pneuma. Therefore, the political formula: “the king does not govern” could shed light upon the structure of the living body: whereas the soul rules the body, pneuma governs it. Although Aristotle does not build his biology upon political concepts, metaphors are already there, shaping his explanations, within the bio-theo-political paradigm of autarchy.Fil: Grassi, Martín. Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Buenos Aires. Centro de Estudios Filosóficos "Eugenio Pucciarelli"; Argentina. Universitat Bonn; Alemania. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaNicolaus Copernicus University2020-06info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/169424Grassi, Martín; Self-organized bodies, between Politics and Biology. A political reading of Aristotle’s concepts of Soul and Pneuma; Nicolaus Copernicus University; Scientia et Fides; 8; 1; 6-2020; 123-1392300-76482353-5636CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/article/view/SetF.2020.005info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.12775/SetF.2020.005info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2024-05-08T14:10:14Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/169424instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982024-05-08 14:10:14.933CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Self-organized bodies, between Politics and Biology. A political reading of Aristotle’s concepts of Soul and Pneuma
title Self-organized bodies, between Politics and Biology. A political reading of Aristotle’s concepts of Soul and Pneuma
spellingShingle Self-organized bodies, between Politics and Biology. A political reading of Aristotle’s concepts of Soul and Pneuma
Grassi, Martín
Self-organization
System
Government
Circulation
Autarchy
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
title_short Self-organized bodies, between Politics and Biology. A political reading of Aristotle’s concepts of Soul and Pneuma
title_full Self-organized bodies, between Politics and Biology. A political reading of Aristotle’s concepts of Soul and Pneuma
title_fullStr Self-organized bodies, between Politics and Biology. A political reading of Aristotle’s concepts of Soul and Pneuma
title_full_unstemmed Self-organized bodies, between Politics and Biology. A political reading of Aristotle’s concepts of Soul and Pneuma
title_sort Self-organized bodies, between Politics and Biology. A political reading of Aristotle’s concepts of Soul and Pneuma
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Grassi, Martín
author Grassi, Martín
author_facet Grassi, Martín
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Self-organization
System
Government
Circulation
Autarchy
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
topic Self-organization
System
Government
Circulation
Autarchy
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
description The idea of a self-organized system brings both political and biological discourses together, for they both aim at explaining how a certain compound can achieve self-unity out of plurality. Whereas biological metaphors in politics have been much examined, political metaphors in biology have not. In this paper I intend to show how political metaphors can enlighten biological discourses, taking the work of Aristotle as a case-study. The relationship between the main elements of a living-body could be better understood within a political scheme: the soul rules over the body through pneuma, its prime minister. This scheme entails, thus, to re-examine Aristotle’s definition of soul in the light of the key concept of pneuma, and to replace the hylemorphic explanation with a triadic one. On the one hand, soul is the entelecheia of the body as it keeps both the form and the end of the organism, which is its unity. On the other hand, the moving-efficacious principle that performs unity by circulating through the body, and by linking the body to its environment is pneuma. Therefore, the political formula: “the king does not govern” could shed light upon the structure of the living body: whereas the soul rules the body, pneuma governs it. Although Aristotle does not build his biology upon political concepts, metaphors are already there, shaping his explanations, within the bio-theo-political paradigm of autarchy.
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