Reading and Sleep in Pseudo-Aristotle, Problemata XVIII,7
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Robert Mayhew
Abstract
After brief discussions of Aristotle’s De somno et vigilia and the fragmentary evidence for Strato of Lampsacus’ De somno, which together provide the relevant Peripatetic context, this essay is in effect a commentary on pseudo-Aristotle, Problemata XVIII,7. This neglected text discusses the purported relationship in different individuals between reading and sleep (or insomnia), which in turn involves the unknown author’s conception of the connection between the nutritive part of the soul and the rational part. Discussion and debate in the Lyceum in the generation after Aristotle was, it is argued, the likely intellectual soil from which Pr. XVIII,7 emerged.
Abstract
After brief discussions of Aristotle’s De somno et vigilia and the fragmentary evidence for Strato of Lampsacus’ De somno, which together provide the relevant Peripatetic context, this essay is in effect a commentary on pseudo-Aristotle, Problemata XVIII,7. This neglected text discusses the purported relationship in different individuals between reading and sleep (or insomnia), which in turn involves the unknown author’s conception of the connection between the nutritive part of the soul and the rational part. Discussion and debate in the Lyceum in the generation after Aristotle was, it is argued, the likely intellectual soil from which Pr. XVIII,7 emerged.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Table of Contents V
- Abbreviations VII
- Introduction IX
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Aristotle
- ‘Most Natural Among the Functions of Living Things’ 1
- Method and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle’s De Anima II,4 21
- Nutrition and Hylomorphism in Aristotle 43
- The Female Contribution to Generation and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle’s Embryology 63
- Why do not Animals Grow on Without End? 85
- Looking for the Formative Power in Aristotle’s Nutritive Soul 101
- Aristotle and his Medical Precursors on Digestion and Nutrition 127
- Aristotle on the Role of Heat in Plant Life 153
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Aristotelianism
- Reading and Sleep in Pseudo-Aristotle, Problemata XVIII,7 173
- Dividing an Apple 197
- Is Nutrition a Sufficient Condition for Life? 221
- Digestive Problems 259
- Magnetism and Nutrition 285
- From Food to Elements and Humors 319
- Standstill or Death 339
- Antonio Ponce de Santacruz on Nutrition and the Question of Emergence 355
- Index locorum 379
- Index rerum 405
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Table of Contents V
- Abbreviations VII
- Introduction IX
-
Aristotle
- ‘Most Natural Among the Functions of Living Things’ 1
- Method and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle’s De Anima II,4 21
- Nutrition and Hylomorphism in Aristotle 43
- The Female Contribution to Generation and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle’s Embryology 63
- Why do not Animals Grow on Without End? 85
- Looking for the Formative Power in Aristotle’s Nutritive Soul 101
- Aristotle and his Medical Precursors on Digestion and Nutrition 127
- Aristotle on the Role of Heat in Plant Life 153
-
Aristotelianism
- Reading and Sleep in Pseudo-Aristotle, Problemata XVIII,7 173
- Dividing an Apple 197
- Is Nutrition a Sufficient Condition for Life? 221
- Digestive Problems 259
- Magnetism and Nutrition 285
- From Food to Elements and Humors 319
- Standstill or Death 339
- Antonio Ponce de Santacruz on Nutrition and the Question of Emergence 355
- Index locorum 379
- Index rerum 405
