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- Heat, Pneuma, and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science
- Heat, Pneuma, and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- I Early Greek Philosophy and Medicine
- II Aristotle
- Chapter 7 Heat, Meteorology, and Spontaneous Generation
- Chapter 8 Aristotle on the Nature in the Pneuma and the First Body
- Chapter 9 Aristotle on the Powers of Thermic Equilibrium
- Chapter 10 Why Animals Must Keep Their Cool: Aristotle on the Need for Respiration (and Other Forms of Cooling)
- Chapter 11 Soul’s Tools
- Chapter 12 When Life Imitates Art: Vital Locomotion and Aristotle’s Craft Analogy
- Chapter 13 Blood, Pneuma, or Something More Solid? Aristotle on the Material Structure of Perceptual Apparatus
- Chapter 14 The Pathological Role of Pneuma in Aristotle
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index
Chapter 11 - Soul’s Tools
from II - Aristotle
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 February 2020
- Heat, Pneuma, and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science
- Heat, Pneuma, and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- I Early Greek Philosophy and Medicine
- II Aristotle
- Chapter 7 Heat, Meteorology, and Spontaneous Generation
- Chapter 8 Aristotle on the Nature in the Pneuma and the First Body
- Chapter 9 Aristotle on the Powers of Thermic Equilibrium
- Chapter 10 Why Animals Must Keep Their Cool: Aristotle on the Need for Respiration (and Other Forms of Cooling)
- Chapter 11 Soul’s Tools
- Chapter 12 When Life Imitates Art: Vital Locomotion and Aristotle’s Craft Analogy
- Chapter 13 Blood, Pneuma, or Something More Solid? Aristotle on the Material Structure of Perceptual Apparatus
- Chapter 14 The Pathological Role of Pneuma in Aristotle
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index
Summary
Gelber focuses on passages in GA where Aristotle treats heat and cold as agents which are said to be making (poiei), fabricating (dêmiourgei), solidifying (pêgnutai), putting together (sunistatai), or working (ergazetai) to accomplish something, and thereby playing a role in the formation of a living organism. Gelber s aim is to explain how heat and cold do this, and the significance, for Aristotle, of calling heat and cold the tools of soul in his explanation of animal reproduction.
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- Heat, Pneuma, and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science , pp. 243 - 259Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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