Nutrition and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle and Aristotelianism

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Nutrition and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle and Aristotelianism

In collaboration with: Dorothea Keller
Edited by: Giouli Korobili and Roberto Lo Presti

Volume 9 in the series Topics in Ancient Philosophy / Themen der antiken Philosophie

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110690552

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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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Giouli Korobili and Roberto Lo Presti, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Aristotle
‘Most Natural Among the Functions of Living Things’ Puzzles about Reproduction as a Nutritive Function James G. Lennox Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	1
Method and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle’s De Anima II,4 Mary Louise Gill Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	21
Nutrition and Hylomorphism in Aristotle R. A. H. King Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	43
The Female Contribution to Generation and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle’s Embryology Sophia M. Connell Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	63
Why do not Animals Grow on Without End? Aristotle on Nutrition and Form Andrea Libero Carbone Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	85
Looking for the Formative Power in Aristotle’s Nutritive Soul David Lefebvre Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	101
Aristotle and his Medical Precursors on Digestion and Nutrition Hynek Bartoš Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	127
Aristotle on the Role of Heat in Plant Life Giouli Korobili Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	153
Aristotelianism
Reading and Sleep in Pseudo-Aristotle, Problemata XVIII,7 On the Nutritive Soul’s Influence on the Intellect, and Vice Versa Robert Mayhew Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	173
Dividing an Apple The Nutritive Soul and Soul Parts in Alexander of Aphrodisias Gweltaz Guyomarc’h Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	197
Is Nutrition a Sufficient Condition for Life? Avicenna’s Position Between Natural Philosophy and Medicine Tommaso Alpina Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	221
Digestive Problems John Buridan on Human Nutrition Martin Klein Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	259
Magnetism and Nutrition An Ancient Idea Fleshed out in Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Medicine, and Alchemy Christoph Sander Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	285
From Food to Elements and Humors Digestion in Late Renaissance Galenism Elisabeth Moreau Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	319
Standstill or Death Early modern Debates on the Hibernation of Animals Bernd Roling Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	339
Antonio Ponce de Santacruz on Nutrition and the Question of Emergence Andreas Blank Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	355
Index locorum Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	379
Index rerum Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	405

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Classicists; Philosophers; Historians/Philosophers of Science; Biologists interested in the History of Science.
Pages
- Front matter: 22
- Main content: 418
Keywords: Aristotle; Aristotelianism; soul; nutrition

eBook

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110690552

Hardcover

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110689792