Buch, Englisch, Greek, Ancient (to 1453), 924 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 1432 g
Text, Translation, and Commentary
Buch, Englisch, Greek, Ancient (to 1453), 924 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 1432 g
ISBN: 978-3-11-123574-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Aristotle’s continues the investigation begun in the . The defines the soul and treats its main powers, nutrition, sense perception, intellection, and locomotion. The , , , , , , , and attends more to bodily involvement with soul. While each work offers fascinating and challenging insights, there has never been as extensive a commentary covering them together. A reason is that the works have often been viewed as incidental and even inconsistent. The has not typically been included, when viewed as an isolated work on animal locomotion.
This commentary argues that the treatises, considered together and with the among them, display a tight sequence manifesting an artful, yet easily overlooked, design. We reveal many techniques of Aristotle’s writing that have received little consideration previously. Our commentary contributes to a unified and comprehensive account of Aristotle’s overall project regarding the soul and its connections with the body.
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Scholars and students of philosophy and classics, as well as the
