| Description |
ix, 256 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-201) and indexes |
| Subject |
Aristotle.
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| LC no. |
2001409910 |
| ISBN |
0715629824 |
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