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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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 Accessible Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Accessible Download PDF	V
Abbreviations Accessible Download PDF	VII
Introduction Accessible Download PDF	IX
Aristotle
‘Most Natural Among the Functions of Living Things’ James G. Lennox Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	1
Method and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle’s De Anima II,4 Mary Louise Gill Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	21
Nutrition and Hylomorphism in Aristotle R. A. H. King Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	43
The Female Contribution to Generation and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle’s Embryology Sophia M. Connell Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	63
Why do not Animals Grow on Without End? Andrea Libero Carbone Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	85
Looking for the Formative Power in Aristotle’s Nutritive Soul David Lefebvre Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	101
Aristotle and his Medical Precursors on Digestion and Nutrition Hynek Bartoš Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	127
Aristotle on the Role of Heat in Plant Life Giouli Korobili Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	153
Aristotelianism
Reading and Sleep in Pseudo-Aristotle, Problemata XVIII,7 Robert Mayhew Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	173
Dividing an Apple Gweltaz Guyomarc’h Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	197
Is Nutrition a Sufficient Condition for Life? Tommaso Alpina Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	221
Digestive Problems Martin Klein Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	259
Magnetism and Nutrition Christoph Sander Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	285
From Food to Elements and Humors Elisabeth Moreau Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	319
Standstill or Death Bernd Roling Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	339
Antonio Ponce de Santacruz on Nutrition and the Question of Emergence Andreas Blank Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	355
Index locorum Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	379
Index rerum Requires Authentication Accessible 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