The Science of Life in Aristotle and the Early Peripatos (Philosophia Antiqua)

Lefebvre, David (EDT)

Brill（2024/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 401 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004711686
• DDC分類 185

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This volume of fourteen essays explores the science of life in 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.

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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