Aristotle on the Nature in the Pneuma and the First Body
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Aristotle on the Nature in the Pneuma and the First Body
Original language description
Aristotle's analogy between "the phusis in the pneuma" and "the element of the stars" (GA II 3, 736b37-737a1) belongs to the often quoted yet perennially frustrating passages in the corpus. In order to determine the possible meaning of this analogy, this chapter does not attempt another reconstruction of Aristotle's lost works nor rely on commentators, but focuses on the well-preserved treatises. It proceeds in two steps: first, it re-reads the passage where the analogy occurs and add other relevant texts from the treatise concerning the role of pneuma in the generation of living beings; second, it turns to De caelo and the celestial "first body" as internally animate. My aim is to demonstrate that the key to the analogy lies in the shared link between motion and animation, a link which, in these two cases only, does not require the actual presence of the soul.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
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Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Heat, Pneuma and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science
ISBN
978-1-108-47673-7
Number of pages of the result
20
Pages from-to
182-201
Number of pages of the book
380
Publisher name
Cambridge University Press
Place of publication
Cambridge
UT code for WoS chapter
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