Nutrition and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle and Aristotelianism
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Nutrition and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle and Aristotelianism

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Nutrition and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle and Aristotelianism

About this book

This volume is a detailed study of the concept of the nutritive capacity of the soul and its actual manifestation in living bodies (plants, animals, humans) in Aristotle and Aristotelianism. Aristotle's innovative analysis of the nutritive faculty has laid the intellectual foundation for the increasing appreciation of nutrition as a prerequisite for the maintenance of life and health that can be observed in the history of Greek thought. According to Aristotle, apart from nutrition, the nutritive part of the soul is also responsible for or interacts with many other bodily functions or mechanisms, such as digestion, growth, reproduction, sleep, and the innate heat. After Aristotle, these concepts were used and further developed by a great number of Peripatetic philosophers, commentators on Aristotle and Arabic thinkers until early modern times. This volume is the first of its kind to provide an in-depth survey of the development of this rather philosophical concept from Aristotle to early modern thinkers. It is of key interest to scholars working on classical, medieval and early modern psycho-physiological accounts of living things, historians and philosophers of science, biologists with interests in the history of science, and, generally, students of the history of philosophy and science.

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Yes, you can access Nutrition and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle and Aristotelianism by Romualdo Salcedo, Giouli Korobili,Roberto Lo Presti, Giouli Korobili, Roberto Lo Presti in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Philosophy & Ancient & Classical Philosophy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Sciendo
Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9783110690552
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Ancient & Classical Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Abbreviations
  3. Introduction
  4. Aristotle
  5. ā€˜Most Natural Among the Functions of Living Thingsā€™
  6. Method and Nutritive Soul in Aristotleā€™s De Anima II,4
  7. Nutrition and Hylomorphism in Aristotle
  8. The Female Contribution to Generation and Nutritive Soul in Aristotleā€™s Embryology
  9. Why do not Animals Grow on Without End?
  10. Looking for the Formative Power in Aristotleā€™s Nutritive Soul
  11. Aristotle and his Medical Precursors on Digestion and Nutrition
  12. Aristotle on the Role of Heat in Plant Life
  13. Aristotelianism
  14. Reading and Sleep in Pseudo-Aristotle, Problemata XVIII,7
  15. Dividing an Apple
  16. Is Nutrition a Sufficient Condition for Life?
  17. Digestive Problems
  18. Magnetism and Nutrition
  19. From Food to Elements and Humors
  20. Standstill or Death
  21. Antonio Ponce de Santacruz on Nutrition and the Question of Emergence
  22. Index locorum
  23. Index rerum