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Aristotle's De motu animalium

Symposium Aristotelicum

Oliver Primavesi editor Christof Rapp editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:15th Oct '20

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The volumes of the Symposium Aristotelicum have become essential reference works for the study of Aristotle. In this twentieth volume, ten renowned scholars of ancient philosophy offer a running commentary on Aristotle's De motu animalium. It is in this text, one of his most intriguing works, that Aristotle sets out the general principles of animal locomotion. A philological and a philosophical introduction sketch the current state of research on this treatise, situating current thought in the context of three decades of scholarly debates. The nine contributed essays together comment on each chapter of the Aristotelian text, discussing in detail the philosophical issues that are raised across the different sections of the text. Comprehensive analyses of Aristotle's doctrines and arguments, as well as critical discussion of rival interpretations, make this volume a valuable resource for scholars of Aristotle. The present volume also includes a newly reconstructed Greek text with a facing English translation by Benjamin Morison.

This book is an outstanding feat of Aristotelian scholarship. * MARCO ZINGANO, Universidade de São Paulo, THE CLASSICAL REVIEW *
The nine essays that follow are of a uniformly high quality. * Robert Mayhew, Seton Hall University *

ISBN: 9780198835561

Dimensions: 245mm x 165mm x 35mm

Weight: 972g

566 pages