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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Cover -- Aristotle, De Motu Animalium: A New Critical Edition of the Greek Text -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreward -- Introduction Part I: The Argument of De Motu Animalium -- 1. Aristotle's De Motu Animalium: Its Topic and Purpose -- 2. The Structure of De Motu Animalium -- 3. Authenticity -- (i) A Misguided or Inserted Reference in MA 10? -- (ii) Sparse Evidence in Ancient Testimonies? -- (iii) The Alleged Lack of Thematic Unity -- 4. The Chronology of the De Motu Animalium -- 5. Incompatibility of the De Motu Animalium with the Psychology of De Anima? |
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(I) Cardiocentrism and Instrumentalism -- (ii) The Developmental Approach -- (iii) Integrating Cardiocentrism -- (iv) Integrating or Mitigating Instrumentalism? -- 6. The Seemingly Unrelated Appearance of the Connate Pneuma in MA 10 -- 7. The MA: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry? -- 8. The Explanandum of the Common Cause -- (i) The Non-Locomotive Case -- (ii) The Non-Intentional Case -- 9. Mechanical and Bio-Kinematical Assumptions -- (i) The Impact of Early Mechanics -- (ii) Mechanistic Accounts and Intentional Movement -- (iii) Bio-Kinematical Questions -- 10. The Practical Syllogism |
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(I) The Textual Evidence -- (ii) Rule-Case vs. Means-End Examples -- (iii) Exegetical Difficulties -- (iv) Making Sense of the Practical Syllogism -- 11. The Role of Phantasia -- (i) A Privileged or Even Necessary Role for Phantasia? -- (ii) The Alleged Star Witnesses for a Necessary Role of Phantasia -- (iii) Other Considerations in Favour of a Necessary Role for Phantasia -- (iv) Conclusions and Suggestions -- 12. Desire and Affections -- (i) Emotions and Other Affections -- (ii) Desire (Orexis) -- (iii) The Somatic Implementation of Desire -- 13. Self-Movers and Unmoved Movers |
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(I) Self-Movers -- (ii) Unmoved Prerequisites and Unmoved Movers -- Introduction Part II: The Text of De Motu Animalium -- 1. The Key Passage: MA 6, 700b17-25 -- 2. P's Reading of 700b23-4: A Byzantine Conjecture? -- 3. Jaeger 1913: Two Manuscript Families and One Open Question -- 4. Torraca 1958: William of Moerbeke and Cod. Vaticanus P -- 5. Wartelle 1963: The First List of MA Manuscripts -- 6. Louis 1973: An Intuition-but No Evidence -- 7. Nussbaum 1975: The Lost 'Majuscule MS' -- 8. De Leemans 2011: William's Two Models and a New Group of Greek Mss. -- 9. On the Eve of the 2011 Symposium |
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10. A Final Challenge: Escobar 1990 on De Insomniis -- 11. Primavesi 2011: A New Hyparchetype -- (i) MA 2, 698b12-17: Mice in Pitch -- (ii) MA 3, 699a12-14: An External Point of Rest for the Universe? -- (iii) MA 7, 701a36-b1: Prohairesis -- (iv) MA 7, 701b1-7: The automatic theatres -- 12. Back to Andronicus: Second Thoughts on 700b17-25 -- 13. Isépy 2013 on the Greek Models of the Two Mediaeval Translations -- 14. Koch 2015 on Michael of Ephesus -- 15. A New Stemma of the Independent Tradition -- 16. The New Text, Its Three Apparatus, and the English Translation |
| Summary |
The book contains a new critical edition of the Greek text of Aristotle's De Motu Animalium and an English translation of the new text by Benjamin Morison, preceded by a two-part introduction by Christof Rapp and Oliver Primavesi |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Appendix I: The Forty-Seven Known Greek Manuscripts of MA |
| Subject |
Substance (Philosophy) -- Early works to 1800
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Animal locomotion -- Early works to 1800
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Animal locomotion
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Substance (Philosophy)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rapp, Christof
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Morison, Benjamin
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| ISBN |
9780198874478 |
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0198874472 |
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