Aristotle. On Youth and Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 1-6: With Translation, Introduction and Interpretation

Author:   Giouli Korobili
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Volume:   30
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9783030999650


Pages:   258
Publication Date:   22 June 2022
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Author:   Giouli Korobili
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Volume:   30
Weight:   0.582kg
ISBN:  

9783030999650


ISBN 10:   3030999653
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   22 June 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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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 … 000-000 References … 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 ΙΙ.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 … 000-000 References … 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 ... 000-000 B. Aristotle’s use of the first-person plural ... 000-000 C. Aristotle’s distancing of himself from rival views ... 000-000 D. Aristotle’s use of examples ... 000-000 Conclusion: Debating the location of the soul … 000-000 References … 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 … 000-000 Case 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

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Giouli Korobili is a Marie Skłodowska-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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