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541:, or 'spirit', to describe it. Like fire, this intelligent 'spirit' was imagined as a tenuous substance akin to a current of air or breath, but essentially possessing the quality of warmth; it was immanent in the universe as God, and in man as the soul and life-giving principle. Clearly it is not a long step from this to the 'Holy Spirit' of Christian theology, the 'Lord and Giver of life', visibly manifested as tongues of fire at Pentecost and ever since associated – in the Christian as in the Stoic mind – with the ideas of vital fire and beneficient warmth. 1590: 2458: 1389: 283:
breathing and the power of cooling by moisture with a view to the conservation of the heat in that part. We will discuss this later on. In bloodless animals and insects and creatures which do not respire, the naturally inherent breath is seen expanding and contraction in the part which corresponds to the heart in other animals." 456a1–13.
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The inborn spirit causes movement in the body by expanding and contracting. Each of these implies not only a movement but also a change in the degree of power and strength of the animal. "when it contracts it is without force, and one and the same cause gives it force and enables it to thrust."
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animals this is the region about the heart; for all sanguineous animals possess a heart, and both movement and the dominant sense-perception originate there. As for movement, it is clear that breathing and in general the process of cooling takes its rise here, and that nature has supplied both
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is then translated as "wind" in verse eight, followed by the rendering "Spirit": "The wind (pneuma) bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit (pneuma)."
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is the warm mobile "air" that plays many roles in Aristotle's biological texts. It is in sperm and is responsible for transmitting the capacity for locomotion and certain sensations to the offspring. These movements derive from the soul of the parent and are embodied by the
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Aristotle explains that if there is an excess of heat created in the heart the animal will "burn out" by excessively consuming the power sustaining its life (474b10–24). Its heat must be kindled (474b13) and in order to preserve (sōtērias) life, a cooling must take place
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in structuring matter, both in animals and in the physical world. This divine pneuma that is the soul of the cosmos supplies the pneuma in its varying grades for everything in the world, a spherical continuum of matter held together by the orderly power of
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is the Greek word translated into English as "spirit": "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit (pneuma), he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." In some translations such as the King James version, however,
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was not a new one. The Methodic school, however, appears to have done away with much of the theory. The Pneumatic school, in choosing to oppose the Methodic school, adopted a firmly established principle, and chose the
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was indispensable to medicine, and Galen tells us that the Pneumatic school would rather have betrayed their country than renounce their opinions. Athenaeus had also adopted much of the doctrines of the
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François, Alexandre (2008), "Semantic maps and the typology of colexification: Intertwining polysemous networks across languages", in Vanhove, Martine (ed.),
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In the Stoic universe, everything consists of matter and pneuma. There are three grades or kinds of pneuma, depending on their proportion of fire and air.
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the origin of the soul," the soul as the center of causality. This "spirit" is not the soul itself but a limb of the soul that helps it move.
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is necessary for life, and as in medical theory is involved with preserving the "vital heat," but some commentators think the Aristotelian
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Michael J. White, "Stoic Natural Philosophy (Physics and Cosmology)," p. 134, and Dorothea Frede, "Stoic Determinism," p. 186, both in
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had enjoyed its greatest reputation, from which the Pneumatic school differed principally in that, instead of the mixture of primitive
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was the most suitable for the preservation of health. Heat and dryness give rise to acute diseases, cold and moisture produce
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much more than the Methodic school had done. He recognised in the four elements the positive qualities (
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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Another Stoic concept which offered inspiration to the Church was that of 'divine Spirit'.
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necessary for the systemic functioning of vital organs. It is the material that sustains
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From Polysemy to Semantic change: Towards a Typology of Lexical Semantic Associations
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is the process by which breathing helps to cool and moderate the inner vital heat (
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is the active, generative principle that organizes both the individual and the
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Silvia Benso, "The Breathing of the Air: Presocratic Echoes in Levinas," in
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developed the theory even more and applied it to the functions of the body.
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The pneuma in its most rarefied and fiery form serves as the animal soul (
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attributes the power of pneuma in Stoic thought to its "tensile motion" (
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pur, to hêgemonikon, pneuma, theos, nous, sperma, hexis, tonikê kinêsis.
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Michael J. White, "Stoic Natural Philosophy (Physics and Cosmology),"
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to be the function of the breath within the organism. Around 300 BC,
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This article is about the philosophical concept. For other uses, see
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that we learn the doctrines of the founder of the Pneumatic school.
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Pneuma in its purest form can thus be difficult to distinguish from
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is less precisely and thoroughly defined than that of the Stoics.
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Philip J. van der Eijk, "The Heart, the Brain, the Blood and the
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This unifying and shaping pneuma provides stability or cohesion (
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act a great part in health and disease. Thus, the theory of the
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A fourth grade of pneuma may also be distinguished. This is the
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to the different parts of the body. A generation afterwards,
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is introduced into the body and the sanguineous system. The
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is for the light breathing of human men while the stronger
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that is the soul of the Deity. As a force that structures
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is the concept of the "breath of life," a mixture of the
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is, likewise, tethered to the soul, or as he says here,
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through the causality of the pneuma that pervades it.
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air (in motion) and fire (as warmth). For the Stoics,
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Pneuma also played an important role in respiration.
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Bromiley, Geoffrey William; Kittel, Gerhard (1967).
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had already laid the foundations of the doctrine of
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In classical philosophy, it is distinguishable from
1099:(University of California Press, 2006), pp. 98–104. 154:) encompass the whole world." In this early usage, 1289: 1113: 905:The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 705:, and there causes thought and organic movement. 2476: 1365:(Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 131–132 1011:. History of Philosophy. Routledge. p. 29. 1536:The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy 1284: 1227:The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy 1225:David Sedley, "Stoic Physics and Metaphysics," 1201:The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy 1199:David Sedley, "Stoic Physics and Metaphysics," 1108: 1084:The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy 605: 250:), which is classified as the "central origin ( 1320: 1991: 1621: 774:, or spirit. This principle was the cause of 63:, and is also used in Greek translations of 2005: 1357:on the Location of Cognitive Processes," in 1000: 998: 1323:Theological Dictionary of the New Testament 533:, wishing to give more explicit meaning to 371:, wishing to give more explicit meaning to 1998: 1984: 1628: 1614: 871:affections, cold and dryness give rise to 634:, the psychic pneuma mediates between the 1575:Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities 1512:. Edited by Edward N. Zalta. Spring 2008. 1052:Benso, "The Breathing of the Air," p. 14. 995: 1242:(Routledge, 1999) p. 238; John Sellars, 1043:(Indiana University Press, 2008), p. 13. 983: 1510:The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 1214:The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 737:) was an ancient school of medicine in 689:made this the basis of a new theory of 665:discovered the distinction between the 646:theories of ancient medicine – and the 500: 242:All animals "possess an inborn spirit ( 176:Spontaneous generation § Aristotle 2477: 1562:University of California Press, 2006. 1545:, vol. 9. Taylor & Francis, 1998. 1518:The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics. 1004: 422:The vegetative pneuma enables growth ( 2500:New Testament Greek words and phrases 2490:Concepts in ancient Greek metaphysics 1979: 1609: 1399: 1257:The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics 1146:The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics 1065:(Taylor & Francis, 1998), p. 145. 584:is a common word for "spirit" in the 552:philosopher, commented on the use of 511:In his Introduction to the 1964 book 428:) and distinguishes a thing as alive. 223:) as an expansion and contraction of 1543:Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy 1063:Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy 572:. Philo explains that, in his view, 142:), holds us together, so do breath ( 1538:. Cambridge University Press, 2005. 1148:(Cambridge University Press, 2003). 708: 47:", and in a religious context for " 16:Concept in Ancient Greek philosophy 13: 1521:Cambridge University Press, 2003. 839:, and besides the doctrine of the 471:regarded pneuma as the vehicle of 201:as a material substance in semen. 14: 2531: 2340:Medical community of ancient Rome 2325:Food and diet in ancient medicine 1582: 843:, he developed the theory of the 217:explains the activity of desire ( 2457: 2456: 2345:Nutrition in classical antiquity 1588: 1533:"Stoic Physics and Metaphysics." 1387: 812:and his successors had made the 677:had been ongoing since at least 580:was used for the divine Spirit. 388:The pneuma of state or tension ( 1482: 1470: 1457: 1444: 1431: 1418: 1380: 1339: 1314: 1278: 1265: 1249: 1232: 1219: 1206: 1193: 1180: 1164: 1151: 1138: 102: 2335:Mental illness in ancient Rome 1931:Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 1325:. Wm. B. 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Index

Pneuma (disambiguation)
πνεῦμα
ancient Greek
breath
spirit
soul
classical antiquity
physiology
רוח
Hebrew Bible
Greek New Testament
psyche
ψυχή
soul
material monism
Anaximenes
Spontaneous generation § Aristotle
On Breath
Movement of Animals
Aristotle
Movement of Animals
orexis
On Sleeping and Waking
sanguineous
Respiration
Stoic physics
Stoic philosophy
elements
cosmos
matter

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