Connell, Sophia (2024) How does a living animal come to be from semen? The puzzles of Aristotle’s Generation of Animals II 1-3. In: Lefebvre, D. (ed.) The Science of Life in Aristotle and the Early Peripatos. Philosophia Antiqua 171. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, pp. 388-405. ISBN 9789004711723. (In Press)
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Abstract
This essay will detail Aristotle’s articulation of the challenge of explaining how the male causes a new living being and the role that a comparison to ‘automata’ plays in solving it. These artefacts are markedly different from his usual craft analogies, possessing moving parts, interconnected by the transmission of power or force. By analysing automata we gain a better understanding not only of the relationship between agency and soul but of the way in which potentially living materials from the female parent must be complementary and interact in the processes of animal generation.
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| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Depositing User: | Sophia Connell |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Nov 2024 16:15 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Apr 2025 14:16 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/53408 |
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