This book is devoted to the last part of Aristotle's collection of short treatises known today as the Parva Naturalia, i.e. the treatise On Youth and Old Age, on Life and Death, on Respiration. In the three main sections of the book, the author offers a translation, a commentary and a thorough analysis of this work. The author argues in favour of the unity of the work and contextualises its ideas within Aristotle's corpus and the medical tradition of his time. After an Introduction to the nature of the work and its significance for the history of natural philosophy and science, a new English translation follows, along with a detailed commentary of Chapters 1-6, which combines philosophical discussion with philological observations. The book includes four interpretive essays, which tackle problems related to the whole treatise on a more philosophical basis, including questions about the structure andunity of the work, the organisation of the material, Aristotle's methodological principles, his aims and target audience as well as the relevance of his selected themes to the thematic agenda of some Hippocratic writings. This book is of interest to students and researchers in Aristotle's psychophysiology, and his views about the embodied mind, as well as to anyone concerned with the history of natural philosophy and science more generally.

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Giouli Korobili is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Utrecht. She studied Classical Philology and Philosophy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (BA), at the University of Ioannina (MA) and at Humboldt University of Berlin (PhD). She has contributed to a number of edited volumes on Aristotle, ancient medicine and Byzantine Aristotelian commentators. She has completed a project on the first edition of Theodorus Metochites' Paraphrasis of Aristotle's PA I at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and she is currently working on a book dealing with medical analogies employed in ancient Greek and Roman meteorological accounts.

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CHAPTER 1 Introduction ... 00-00

CHAPTER 2 Translation ... 00-00

CHAPTER 3 Commentary on JSVMR 1 ...... 00-00

CHAPTER 4 Commentary on JSVMR 2 ...... 00-00

CHAPTER 5 Commentary on JSVMR 3 ...... 00-00

CHAPTER 6 Commentary on JSVMR 4 ...... 00-00

CHAPTER 7 Commentary on JSVMR 5 ...... 00-00

CHAPTER 8 Commentary on JSVMR 6 ...... 000-000

CHAPTER 9 Essay 1: Aristotle and the Establishment of the Cardiocentric Theory ... 000-000

Introducing the appropriate methodological approach ... 000-000

Chapters 2 & 3: Locating the psychic parts in the middle of the body ... 000-000

Chapters 2 & 3: Highlighting methodological practices involved in the process of investigation ... 000-000

Chapter 4: Rational arguments (kata ton logon) for the bodily location of the soul ... 000-000

Chapter 4: Natural heat - the new life-securing factor ... 000-000

Chapter 5: Explaining the two ways in which heat is destroyed ... 000-000

Chapter 6: Natural heat and its preservation ... 000-000 Concluding remarks ... 000-000

References ... 000-000

CHAPTER 10 Essay 2: Placing Phainomena and Logos in Aristotle's Method of Psycho-physiological Inquiry: The Case of De Juventute et Senectute, de Vita et Morte, de Respiratione ... 000-000

Part I: Resp. 9-21 ... 000-000

I.1 Resp. 9-16: Functional anatomy, refrigeration and the environment ... 000-000

I.2 Resp. 17-21: Matters of life, death, health and disease ... 000-000

Part II: The digression of Resp. 1-8. Earlier views on respiration ... 000-000

II.1 Resp. 1: Aristotle's criticism of his predecessors' accounts of respiration ... 000-000

II.2 Resp. 2-4: Criticism of Democritus and other Presocratic philosophers ... 000-000

.3 Resp. 5: Criticism of Plato's method of transmitting his theory of respiration ... 000-000

II.4 Resp. 7: Empedocles and the use of similes ... 000-000

II.5 Brief summary of Part II ... 000-000

Part III: The limits of inquisitive enterprise ... 000-000 Concluding remarks ... 000-000

References ... 000-000

CHAPTER 11 Essay 3: Reconstructing Aristotle's Authorial Strategies in De Juventute et Senectute, de Vita et Morte, de Respiratione 1-6 ... 000-000

Introduction ... 000-000 A. Aristotle's internal references to his own works ... 000-000

B. Aristotle's use of the first-person plural ... 000-000 C. Aristotle's distancing of himself from rival views ... 000-000

D. Aristotle's use of examples ... 000-000 Conclusion: Debating the location of the soul ... 000-000

References ... 000-000

CHAPTER 12 Essay 4: Shedding Light on the Intellectual Discourse between De Juventute et Senectute, de Vita et Morte, de Respiratione 1-6 and the Hippocratic corpus ... 000-000

Introduction ... 000-000

Case 1: JSVMR 3 and the De Nat. Pueri on the sprouting seed of plants ... 000-000

Case 2: JSVMR 3 and the De Nat. Pueri on chick eggs ... 000-000 Case 3: JSVMR 3 and the Aer. on observations of the veins ... 000-000

Case 4: JSVMR 5 and the De Nat. Pueri on burning coals ... 000-000

Case 5: Environment, health and disease ... 000-000

Case 6: Food, refrigeration, and digestion ... 000-000

Conclusion ... 000-000

References ... 000-000