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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
May 2024
Print publication year:
2024
Online ISBN:
9781009426374
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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 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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Contents

  • The Architecture of the Science of Living Beings
    pp i-ii
  • Copyright page
    pp iv-iv
  • Dedication
    pp v-vi
  • Contents
    pp vii-vii
  • Tables
    pp viii-viii
  • Acknowledgments
    pp ix-x
  • Conventions
    pp xi-xi
  • Transliterations
    pp xii-xii
  • Abbreviations
    pp xiii-xvi
  • Introduction
    pp 1-14
  • Chapter 1 - Aristotle’s De anima and the Study of Perishable Living Beings
    pp 15-45
  • Chapter 2 - Aristotle’s Parva naturalia and the Study of Animals and Everything That Has Life
    pp 46-76
  • Chapter 3 - Pre-explanatory and Explanatory Strategies in Aristotle’s Study of Animals
    pp 77-120
  • Chapter 4 - The Transition from the Study of Animals to the Study of Plants (History of Plants I)
    pp 121-151
  • Chapter 5 - Theophrastus on the Generation of Plants (Causes of Plants I)
    pp 152-186
  • Chapter 6 - The Invention of Biology?
    pp 187-208
  • Appendices
    pp 209-229
  • Appendix I - Aristotle on Plants
    pp 209-215
  • Appendix II - Theophrastus on Animals
    pp 216-220
  • Appendix III - [Aristotle], On Plants
    pp 221-229
  • References
    pp 230-246
  • Index of Passages
    pp 247-250
  • General Index
    pp 251-254

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