Aristotle's De Motu Animalium (eBook)

Martha C. Nussbaum (Autor)

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2020
464 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21948-6 (ISBN)

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Available for the first time in paperback, this volumecontains text with translation of De Motu Animalium,Aristotle's attempt to lay the groundwork for ageneral theory of the explanation of animal activity,along with commentary and interpretive essays on thework.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.10.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Schlagworte: absurdity • action • active and passive • Albertus Magnus • Allan Gotthelf • Allusion • Analogy • Andronicus of Rhodes • anthony kenny • Aristo of Ceos • Aristotle • Artifacts • Astronomy • Atomism • Averroes • awareness • Basic belief • Begging the Question • Bernard Williams • Bibliography • biological works of Aristotle • biologist • Bones • Cambridge University Press • Causality • circumference • city simile • Cognition • Corpus Aristotelicum • Cosmological Argument • Cosmology • David Wiggins • decaying-sense theory • Deliberation • De Motu (Berkeley's essay) • Dialectic • Elements • Empedocles • Empirical Evidence • episteme • Epistemology • ethics • Explanation • Explanatory Model • force • form and matter • Four causes • Friedrich Nietzsche • Generation • Gratitude • growth • heat and cold • heavenly spheres • Hilary Putnam • Human beings • Illustration • Impossibility • interdependence • J. L. Ackrill • Justification • lifeless things • Lightness (philosophy) • Literature • mathematical entities • Methodology • Movement of Animals • Necessity • Nelson Goodman • Nicomachean Ethics • nous • On the Soul • optimism • organic unity • Paperback • Penis • Phantasia • phenomenon • Philosopher • philosophical methodology • philosophical studies • Philosophy • Philosophy of mind • philosophy of science • plants • Potentiality and actuality • practical syllogism • Prediction • premises • Pre-Socratic Philosophy • Principle • printing • Psychology • reason • Reflective equilibrium • Requirement • respiration • Richard Sorabji • self-maintaining • Sense • shellfish • sinews • Suggestion • Superiority (short story) • syllogism • teleological argument • Teleology • Terence Irwin • The Fragility of Goodness • Themistius • theoretical reasoning • theory • Theory of Forms • Thomas Nagel • Thomism • Thought • treatise • unmoved mover • Usage • Vital heat • Water • weight • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21948-6 / 0691219486
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21948-6 / 9780691219486