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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• MARTHA CRAVEN NUSSBAUM

Titel

CHAPTER 11

Ist Teil von

• Aristotle's De Motu Animalium, 2020, p.379

Ort / Verlag

Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The introduction of the σνμφτoν πνενμα and the city simile have concluded Aristotle’s account of goal-directed local motions, which has analyzed the combination of cognition and desire required for action and has also discussed the suitability of the animal’s physiology for functioning in the ways necessary if purposive motion is to be accomplished. But there are some changes in the living creature that are in response, directly or indirectly, to some stimulus from the environment and may serve an important purpose in the overall functioning of the creature, but in which, nonetheless, desire and practical thinking cannot be said to