Aristotle’s ›Generation of Animals‹ : : A Comprehensive Approach / / ed. by Sabine Föllinger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Althoff, Jochen,; Busch, Thomas,; Connell, Sophia,; Corcilius, Klaus,; Epstein, Katharina,; Falcon, Andrea,; Föllinger, Sabine,; Hammann, Christoph,; Hellmann, Oliver,; Lefebvre, David,; Lennox, James G.,; Leunissen, Mariska,; Quarantotto, Diana,; Rapp, Christof,; Siebels Peterson, Anne,; Sier, Kurt,; Wilberding, James,
• HerausgeberIn: Föllinger, Sabine,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophie der Antike : Veröffentlichungen der Karl- und Gertrud-Abel-Stiftung , 43
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 490 p.)

Aristotle’s work "On Generation of Animals" is fascinating. By integrating empirical facts into contexts of justification and by explaining reproduction in the framework of his general theory Aristotle wrote a biological ‘masterpiece’. At the same time it raises many issues because due to the difficulty of the subject under investigation (for example, the egg-cell had not yet been discovered) the theory is complex and often speculative. The contributions in this volume resulting from a conference held in Marburg in 2018 study the challenging writing from various perspectives. They examine the structure of the work, the method and the manner of writing, its relation to other writings, and its scientific context. By investigating the underlying philosophical concepts and their relation to the empirical research offered in "On Generation of Animals" the contributions also try to solve puzzles which Aristotle’s explanation of the role of male and female offers as well as his idea of embryogenesis. An outlook for the history of reception rounds off the volume.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Content, Structure and Method -- Aristotle’s GA and the Hippocratic Discourse on Generation -- Connections not so obvious: the Historia animalium and De generatione animalium on generation -- Aristotle’s Generation of Animals V as a Coda -- The Way of Gaining Knowledge: Argumentation and Literary Presentation in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals -- Aristotle’s Methods for Establishing the Facts Concerning the Female Menses in GA I 19–22 -- Analogy in De generatione animalium: its place in explanation -- II. The Role of (Female) Matter and the Embryogenesis -- Hybrids in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals -- Material Persistence in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals -- Aristotle on the order of embryonic development and the homonymy principle -- Heart and Soul in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals II -- Refining Method in Zoology: Aristotle on Aging and Generation -- III. Heat, Pneuma and the Male Seed -- The Role of pneuma in De generatione animalium -- Spontaneous Generation, Plants and Environmental Digestion -- Aristotle’s Explanation of Multiparity -- IV. The Reception of GA -- Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristotle’s Generation of Animals -- Peripatetic views on generation and reproduction in later texts and contexts -- List of Contributors -- Index locorum