This book is devoted to the last part of Aristotle's collection of short treatises known today as the Parva Naturalia, i.e. the treatise On Youth and Old Age, on Life and Death, on Respiration. In the three main sections of the book, the author offers a translation, a commentary and a thorough analysis of this work. The author argues in favour of the unity of the work and contextualises its ideas within Aristotle's corpus and the medical tradition of his time. After an Introduction to the nature of the work and its significance for the history of natural philosophy and science, a new English translation follows, along with a detailed commentary of Chapters 1-6, which combines philosophical discussion with philological observations.
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Giouli Korobili is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Utrecht. She studied Classical Philology and Philosophy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (BA), at the University of Ioannina (MA) and at Humboldt University of Berlin (PhD). She has contributed to a number of edited volumes on Aristotle, ancient medicine and Byzantine Aristotelian commentators. She has completed a project on the first edition of Theodorus Metochites' Paraphrasis of Aristotle's PA I at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and she is currently working on a book dealing with medical analogies employed in ancient Greek and Roman meteorological accounts.
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CHAPTER 1 Introduction ... 00-00
CHAPTER 2 Translation ... 00-00
CHAPTER 3 Commentary on JSVMR 1 ...... 00-00
CHAPTER 4 Commentary on JSVMR 2 ...... 00-00
CHAPTER 5 Commentary on JSVMR 3 ...... 00-00
CHAPTER 6 Commentary on JSVMR 4 ...... 00-00
CHAPTER 7 Commentary on JSVMR 5 ...... 00-00
CHAPTER 8 Commentary on JSVMR 6 ...... 000-000
CHAPTER 9 Essay 1: Aristotle and the Establishment of the Cardiocentric Theory ... 000-000
Introducing the appropriate methodological approach ... 000-000
Chapters 2 & 3: Locating the psychic parts in the middle of the body ... 000-000
Chapters 2 & 3: Highlighting methodological practices involved in the process of investigation ... 000-000
Chapter 4: Rational arguments (kata ton logon) for the bodily location of the soul ... 000-000
Chapter 4: Natural heat - the new life-securing factor ... 000-000
Chapter 5: Explaining the two ways in which heat is destroyed ... 000-000
Chapter 6: Natural heat and its preservation ... 000-000
Concluding remarks ... 000-000References ... 000-000
CHAPTER 10 Essay 2: Placing Phainomena and Logos in Aristotle's Method of Psycho-physiological Inquiry: The Case of De Juventute et Senectute, de Vita et Morte, de Respiratione ... 000-000
Part I: Resp. 9-21 ... 000-000
I.1 Resp. 9-16: Functional anatomy, refrigeration and the environment ... 000-000
I.2 Resp. 17-21: Matters of life, death, health and disease ... 000-000
Part II: The digression of Resp. 1-8. Earlier views on respiration ... 000-000
II.1 Resp. 1: Aristotle's criticism of his predecessors' accounts of respiration ... 000-000
II.2 Resp. 2-4: Criticism of Democritus and other Presocratic philosophers ... 000-000
.3 Resp. 5: Criticism of Plato's method of transmitting his theory of respiration ... 000-000
II.4 Resp. 7: Empedocles and the use of similes ... 000-000
II.5 Brief summary of Part II ... 000-000
Part III: The limits of inquisitive enterprise ... 000-000
Concluding remarks ... 000-000References ... 000-000
CHAPTER 11 Essay 3: Reconstructing Aristotle's Authorial Strategies in De Juventute et Senectute, de Vita et Morte, de Respiratione 1-6 ... 000-000
Introduction ... 000-000
A. Aristotle's internal references to his own works ... 000-000B. Aristotle's use of the first-person plural ... 000-000
C. Aristotle's distancing of himself from rival views ... 000-000D. Aristotle's use of examples ... 000-000
Conclusion: Debating the location of the soul ... 000-000References ... 000-000
CHAPTER 12 Essay 4: Shedding Light on the Intellectual Discourse between De Juventute et Senectute, de Vita et Morte, de Respiratione 1-6 and the Hippocratic corpus ... 000-000
Introduction ... 000-000
Case 1: JSVMR 3 and the De Nat. Pueri on the sprouting seed of plants ... 000-000
Case 2: JSVMR 3 and the De Nat. Pueri on chick eggs ... 000-000
Case 3: JSVMR 3 and the Aer. on observations of the veins ... 000-000Case 4: JSVMR 5 and the De Nat. Pueri on burning coals ... 000-000
Case 5: Environment, health and disease ... 000-000
Case 6: Food, refrigeration, and digestion ... 000-000
Conclusion ... 000-000
References ... 000-000