Aristotle’s ›Generation of Animals‹ : : A Comprehensive Approach /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 490 p.)
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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

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