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Falcon Andrea |
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The Architecture of the Science of Living Beings : Aristotle and Theophrastus on Animals and Plants / / Andrea Falcon |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2024 |
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9781009426336 |
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9781009426381 |
1009426389 |
9781009426374 |
1009426370 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (270 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 May 2024). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions -- List of Transliterations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Aristotle's De anima and the Study of Perishable Living Beings -- Chapter 2 Aristotle's Parva naturalia and the Study of Animals and Everything That Has Life -- Chapter 3 Pre-explanatory and Explanatory Strategies in Aristotle's Study of Animals -- Chapter 4 The Transition from the Study of Animals to the Study of Plants (History of Plants I) -- Chapter 5 Theophrastus on the Generation of Plants (Causes of Plants I) -- Chapter 6 The Invention of Biology? -- Appendix I Aristotle on Plants -- Appendix II Theophrastus on Animals -- Appendix III [Aristotle], On Plants -- References -- Index of Passages -- General Index. |
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Scholars have paid ample attention to Aristotle's works on animals. By contrast, they have paid little or no attention to Theophrastus' writings on plants. That is unfortunate because there was a shared research project in the early Peripatos which amounted to a systematic, and theoretically motivated, study of perishable living beings (animals and |
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plants). This is the first sustained attempt to explore how Aristotle and Theophrastus envisioned this study, with attention focused primarily on its deep structure. That entails giving full consideration to a few transitional passages where Aristotle and Theophrastus offer their own description of what they are trying to do. What emerges is a novel, sophisticated, and largely idiosyncratic approach to the topic of life. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. |
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