The Science of Life in Aristotle and the Early Peripatos -

The Science of Life in Aristotle and the Early Peripatos

David Lefebvre (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
400 Seiten
2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-71168-6 (ISBN)
236,50 inkl. MwSt
This volume of fourteen essays brings together cutting-edge scholarship on Aristotelian and Peripatetic biology, from the study of the soul to the research programme on animals and plants, but Aristotle's claim that eternal beings and the Prime Mover have life is also considered.
This volume of fourteen essays explores the biology of Aristotle and the Early Peripatos (Theophrastus and the Physical Problems) in its various dimensions—how the study of the soul contributes to the foundation of the science of perishable life, what is the program of this science and its main explanatory strategies, whether it is the explanation of natural generation or the relationship of the animal to its surroundings. But the authors also explore what might be, for Aristotle, the unity of life, not only that of animals and plants, but also that of celestial bodies and the Prime Mover.

David Lefebvre, Ph.D. (Sorbonne 2000), is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Sorbonne University. He has published on Aristotle, the Peripatos and Aristotle’s biology, including a French translation of his treatise On the Generation of Animals (2014).

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Part 1: From the Study of the Soul to the Study of Perishable Life in Aristotle and Theophrastus


1 Life and Soul in Aristotle’s De Anima


 Sean Kelsey





2 The Soul Itself in Aristotle’s Science of Living Things


 Klaus Corcilius





3 The Peripatetic Study of Perishable Life: Prospects and Limits


 Andrea Falcon





4 The Minimal Requisites of Life in Aristotle and Theophrastus


 Luciana Repici





Part 2: Explaining Perishable Living Things


5 Perittôma vs. Suntêgma: Was Aristotle Unfair in Equating Pangenesis with the “Seed as Suntêgma” Theory?


 Claire Louguet





6 How Does a Living Animal Come to Be from Semen? The Puzzles of Aristotle’s Generation of Animals II 1–3


 Sophia M. Connell





7 All around the Body: Organism and Surrounding Environment in Aristotle


 Pierre-Marie Morel





8 Living and Well-Living in Aristotle’s Zoology


 Andrea Libero Carbone





9 Simple Solutions to Complex Problems: Spontaneous Generation in [Aristotle], Problemata physica X


 Robert Mayhew





10 Aristotle, Generation of Animals III 11: in Search of a Place for the Fourth Kind of Living Being


 David Lefebvre





Part 3: Life beyond Perishable Lives: Aristotle on the Unity of Life


11 Perishable and Imperishable Lives: Aristotle’s Analogy with the Heavenly Element in GA II 3.736b29–737a5


 Diana Quarantotto





12 “We Think of the Stars as Mere Bodies”: Aristotle’s Epistemological Confrontation with the Academy on Heavenly Bodies


 Mai-Lan Boureau





13 The Life of Aristotle’s Prime Mover: Metaphysics Λ 7.1072b26–30


 Fabienne Baghdassarian





Coda: Aristotle’s Biology and Modern Biology


14 Can Aristotle Be Considered a Biologist?


 Pierre Pellegrin





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Index locorum

Erscheint lt. Verlag 27.12.2024
Reihe/Serie Philosophia Antiqua ; 171
Verlagsort Leiden
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 1 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10 90-04-71168-6 / 9004711686
ISBN-13 978-90-04-71168-6 / 9789004711686
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