Aristotle’s Embryology and Ackrill’s Problem
| Autor: | Nicola Carraro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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History
060103 classics media_common.quotation_subject Ancient philosophy Philosophy Subject (philosophy) 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Epistemology Organic body History and Philosophy of Science 060302 philosophy Hylomorphism 0601 history and archaeology Soul media_common |
| Zdroj: | Phronesis. 62:274-304 |
| ISSN: | 1568-5284 |
| DOI: | 10.1163/15685284-12341328 |
| Popis: | Ackrill’s Problem is a tension between Aristotle’s alleged view that the matter of a living being is a body that is essentially ensouled, and his view that the matter of a substance preexists its generation. Most interpreters solve the tension by claiming that the subject of substantial generation is not the organic body of the living being, but its non-organic matter. I defend a different solution by showing that the embryological theory ofOn the Generation of Animalsimplies that the organic body of a living being already exists before acquiring the soul in actuality. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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