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Aristotle on Life and Death by R. A. H. King (2001, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-100715629824
ISBN-139780715629826
eBay Product ID (ePID)2654722
Product Key Features
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameAristotle on Life and Death
SubjectPhilosophy & Social Aspects, Ancient Languages (See Also Latin), History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ancient & Classical
Publication Year2001
TypeLanguage Course
Subject AreaForeign Language Study, Philosophy, Science, Literary Collections
AuthorR. A. H. King
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight11.4 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2001-409910
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal113/.8/092
Table Of ContentAbbreviations and conventions Acknowledgements 1. Life-cycles 1.1 Mortals and Others 1.2 Interpreting Aristotle on Life and Death 1.3 Aristotle and the explanation of life-cycles 2. Nature 2.1 Nature and Nutrition 2.2 Nature as Form 2.3 Heuristic and ontological teleology 3. Soul 3.1 The project of de Anima and its completion in Parva Naturalia 3.2 The first actuality of a natural body with organs 3.3 Growth and nutrition 3.4 Natural form and natural matter: what perishes and what does not 3.5 The seat of the soul 4. Body 4.1 Balanced capacities in Aristotelian mixtures 4.2 Living things and their surroundings 4.3 The explanation of life-span: the hot and the wet 4.4 Fire, connate heat and perishing 4.5 Balancing heat 4.6 Explaining breathing 4.7 The heart and pneumatosis 5. Defining the life-cycle Notes Select Bibliography Index locorum General index
SynopsisAristotle's Parva Naturalia culminates in definitions of the stages of the life cycle, from the generation of a new living thing up to death. Aristotle thinks of living things as food burners: they nourish themselves, and so, in some cases, possess the capacity for higher living functions such as perceiving. Their burning must be balanced, if it is to continue - and one way they do this is through breathing. Nonetheless, all such burning naturally develops and declines, thus describing the life span of the being concerned. This book provides a detailed reading of the end of the Parva Naturalia ("On the Length and Shortness of Life," "On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death," including "On Breathing"), and shows how the investigation into life begun in the De Anima is completed in the Parva Naturalia, culminating in definitions of the stages of the life cycle, from generation of a new living thing up to death, using the activity of nutrition., Aristotle thinks of living things as food burners: they nourish themselves, and so, in some cases, possess the capacity for higher living functions such as perceiving. Their burning must be balanced, if it is to continue - and one way they do this is through breathing. Nonetheless, all such burning naturally develops and declines, thus describing the life span of the being concerned. Dr Kings' treatment provides a detailed reading of the end of the Parva Naturalia (On the Length and Shortness of Life, On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, including On Breathing). He shows how the investigation into life begun in the De Anima is completed in the Parva Naturalia, culminating in definitions of the stages of the life cycle, from generation of a new living thing up to death, using the activity of nutrition., Aristotle's "Parva Naturalia" culminates in definitions of the stages of the life cycle, from the generation of a new living thing up to death. This book provides a detailed reading of the end of the "Parva Naturalia" and shows how it completes the investigation into life begun in the "De Anima"., Aristotle's Parva Naturalia culminates in definitions of the stages of the life cycle, from the generation of a new living thing up to death. Aristotle thinks of living things as food burners: they nourish themselves, and so, in some cases, possess the capacity for higher living functions such as perceiving. Their burning must be balanced, if it is to continue - and one way they do this is through breathing. Nonetheless, all such burning naturally develops and declines, thus describing the life span of the being concerned. This book provides a detailed reading of the end of the Parva Naturalia ("On the Length and Shortness of Life", "On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death", including "On Breathing"), and shows how the investigation into life begun in the De Anima is completed in the Parva Naturalia, culminating in definitions of the stages of the life cycle, from generation of a new living thing up to death, using the activity of nutrition.
LC Classification NumberB485.K48 2000
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