Aristotle on How Animals Move
The De incessu animalium: Text, Translation, and Interpretative Essays
Published on 9. June 2021
978-1-108-86527-2 (ISBN)
Description
The De incessu animalium forms an integral part of Aristotle's biological corpus but is one of the least studied Aristotelian works both by ancient and modern interpreters. Yet it is a treatise where we can see, with some clarity and detail, Aristotle's methodology at work. This volume contains a new critical edition of the Greek text, an English translation, and nine in-depth interpretative essays. A general introduction that focuses on the explanatory strategies adopted by Aristotle in the De incessu animalium plus a historical essay on the reception of this work in antiquity and beyond open the volume. No other work of this kind has been published in any modern language.
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'There is much to learn from ... this volume, on both large and small issues of Aristotle's biology. All contributors are to be commended - especially Andrea Falcon, who seems to have done the lion's share of the work, both as a contributor and as an editor of this splendid book.' Pavel Gregoric, Journal of the History of PhilosophyMore details
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
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4,17 MB
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978-1-108-86527-2 (9781108865272)
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Andrea Falcon | Stasinos Stavrianeas
Aristotle on How Animals Move
The De incessu animalium: Text, Translation, and Interpretative Essays
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06/2021
Cambridge University Press
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Content
Part I. Introduction: 1. Explanatory Strategies in the De incessu animalium Andrea Falcon; 2. The Reception of the De incessu animalium Andrea Falcon; Part II. Greek Text and Translation: Part III. Interpretative Essays: 3. De incessu animalium 1-3: The Theoretical Framework and the Beginning of the Actual Investigation Andrea Falcon; 4. De incessu animalium 4: Aristotle's Conception of Dimension Panos Dimas; 5. De incessu animalium 5-6: The Architecture of Locomotive Bodies Klaus Corcilius; 6. De incessu animalium 7-8: Number and Distribution of Feet in Animal Progression Stasinos Stavrianeas; 7. De incessu animalium 9: Aristotle's Mathematical Kinesiology: The Case of Bending Christopher Frey; 8. De incessu animalium 10-11: Flight and Two-Footedness Timothy Clarke; 9. De incessu animalium 12-13: Limb-Bending and Natural Teleology Spyridon Rangos; 10. De incessu animalium 14-15: Teleology Across Kinds Sarah Ruth Jansen; 11. De incessu animalium 16-19: The Motion of Many-Footed Animals and Cases of Peculiar Motion in Water Pantelis Golitsis.
