This volume is a detailed study of the concept of the nutritive
capacity of the soul and its actual manifestation in living bodies
(plants, animals, humans) in Aristotle and Aristotelianism.
Aristotle's innovative analysis of the nutritive faculty has laid
the intellectual foundation for the increasing appreciation of
nutrition as a prerequisite for the maintenance of life and health
that can be observed in the history of Greek thought. According to
Aristotle, apart from nutrition, the nutritive part of the soul is
also responsible for or interacts with many other bodily functions
or mechanisms, such as digestion, growth, reproduction, sleep, and
the innate heat. After Aristotle, these concepts were used and
further developed by a great number of Peripatetic philosophers,
commentators on Aristotle and Arabic thinkers until early modern
times. This volume is the first of its kind to provide an in-depth
survey of the development of this rather philosophical concept from
Aristotle to early modern thinkers. It is of key interest to
scholars working on classical, medieval and early modern
psycho-physiological accounts of living things, historians and
philosophers of science, biologists with interests in the history
of science, and, generally, students of the history of philosophy
and science.
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