Aristotle’s ›Parva naturalia‹
Title | Aristotle’s ›Parva naturalia‹ PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Polansky |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 936 |
Release | 2024-05-20 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 3111243834 |
Aristotle’s Parva naturalia continues the investigation begun in the De anima. The De anima defines the soul and treats its main powers, nutrition, sense perception, intellection, and locomotion. The Parva naturalia — On sense and sensible objects, On memory and recollection, On sleep, On dreams, On divination in sleep, On motion of animals (De motu animalium ), On length and shortness of life, and On youth and old age and respiration — 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 De motu animalium 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 De motu 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.
Parva Naturalia
Title | Parva Naturalia PDF eBook |
Author | Aristotle |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780198141082 |
Oxford Scholarly Classics brings together a number of great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in a uniform series design, they will enable libraries, scholars, and students to gain fresh access to some of the finest scholarship of the last century.
On the Soul
Title | On the Soul PDF eBook |
Author | Aristotle |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2018-05-11 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0191026433 |
'. . . the more honourable animals have been allotted a more honourable soul. . . ' What is the nature of the soul? It is this question that Aristotle sought to answer in De Anima (On the Soul). In doing so he offers a psychological theory that encompasses not only human beings but all living beings. Its basic thesis, that the soul is the form of an organic body, sets it in sharp contrast with both Pre-Socratic physicalism and Platonic dualism. On the Soul contains Aristotle's definition of the soul, and his explanations of nutrition, perception, cognition, and animal self-motion. The general theory in De Anima is augmented in the shorter works of Parva Naturalia, which deal with perception, memory and recollection, sleep and dreams, longevity, life-cycles, and psycho-physiology. This new translation brings together all of Aristotle's extant and complementary psychological works, and adds as a supplement ancient testimony concerning his lost writings dealing with the soul. The introduction by Fred D. Miller, Jr. explains the central place of the soul in Aristotle's natural science, the unifying themes of his psychological theory, and his continuing relevance for modern philosophy and psychology.
De Virtutibus Et Vitiis
Title | De Virtutibus Et Vitiis PDF eBook |
Author | Aristotle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Ethics |
ISBN |
The Works of Aristotle
Title | The Works of Aristotle PDF eBook |
Author | Aristotle |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Saltmarsh
Title | Saltmarsh PDF eBook |
Author | Clive Chatters |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 575 |
Release | 2017-10-19 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1472933605 |
'Saltmarshes are often remote, inhospitable places, neither land nor sea, as hard to pin down as they are to navigate. In this saline odyssey, Clive Chatters has explored his favourite creeks, pools and mudflats to bring us an absorbing celebration of the ecology, biology, geology and history of this scarce and mysterious habitat. There are Tadpole Shrimps, and rare sedges, waders and Wild Celery – even inland saltmarshes – in this tour de force by a superb naturalist and writer.' - BRETT WESTWOOD, naturalist, author and radio presenter Saltmarshes are among Britain's most diverse and dynamic landscapes. They abound around our shores but may also be found inland and at altitude – wherever water, salt and vegetation combine. The species they support range from extreme rarities of specialised habitats to the less demanding denizens of coastal wetlands. Here is a landscape of international importance for migratory birds, endemic plants and an exceptional variety of invertebrates. Clive Chatters has a lifetime's affinity with saltmarshes. In this fifth volume of the British Wildlife Collection, he celebrates their natural history and diversity, from the highly distinctive marshes in the Scottish Highlands to the urban remnants of the Thames estuary now engulfed within the capital. By examining the past of these complex habitats, we can gain an insight into how they have developed, and an understanding of their relationship with people. In addition to their exceptionally diverse natural history, saltmarshes are sources of food and medicine, they play a pivotal role in flood defence and carbon sequestration, and have inspired artistic endeavour.
On the Soul
Title | On the Soul PDF eBook |
Author | Aristoteles (Philosoph, Griechenland) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1957 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780674993181 |