Aristotle and the Animals: The Logos of Life Itself

ISBN-13: 9780367409494 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 238 str.

Claudia Zatta

Opis

With a novel approach to Aristotle’s zoology, this study looks at animals as creatures of nature (physis) and reveals a scientific discourse that, in response to his predecessors, exiles logos as reason and pursues the logos intrinsic to animals’ bodies empowering them to sense the world and live.

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1. Aristotle, Animal Boundaries, and the Logos of Nature; CHAPTER 2. From Reason to Life: Aristotle on Soul Division; CHAPTER 3. Animals and Nature: At the Core of Aristotle’s Zoocentrism; CHAPTER 4. The Sentient Animal; CHAPTER 5. Animal Pleasure: From Sensation to Imagination and Beyond; CHAPTER 6. The Lives of Animals; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

O autorze

Claudia Zatta (PhD, Johns Hopkins University, USA) is the author of Interconnectedness: The Living World of the Early Greek Philosophers (2019, second edition) and numerous articles on different aspects of the classics. She currently teaches at the American College of Greece in Athens.