The Science of Life in Aristotle and the Early Peripatos

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400 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-71168-6 (ISBN)

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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

Index nominum

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
Zustand	Neuware