Human Ontogeny in Aristotle and Theophrastus
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/apeiron-2022-0116" target="_blank" >10.1515/apeiron-2022-0116</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Human Ontogeny in Aristotle and Theophrastus
Original language description
This paper presents a detailed reconstruction of Theophrastus' account of human ontogeny, which is built around Aristotle's notoriously difficult claim in Generation of Animals II 3 that "alone enters from without." I argue that this account (which is known to us via quotes from Theophrastus' de Anima II and On Motion I) provides a viable alternative to the traditional trilemma between naturalist traducianism, creationism, and pre-existence, as well as offering an attractive but so far unappreciated interpretation of Aristotle's account of human ontogeny. More specifically, I argue that the extant evidence poses a challenge to the two dominant interpretations of "from without" in the last decades: a dialectical one, according to which Aristotle ultimately rejects this claim, and a naturalizing one (often inspired by Alexander of Aphrodisias) that obliterates the essential difference between and the other parts of the soul.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA22-11418S" target="_blank" >GA22-11418S: Mixing Body and Soul</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Apeiron
ISSN
0003-6390
e-ISSN
2156-7093
Volume of the periodical
57
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
51
Pages from-to
427-477
UT code for WoS article
001247461400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85196631838