Aristotle thinks of living things as food burners: they nourish themselves, and so, in some cases, possess the capacity for higher living functions such as perceiving. Their burning must be balanced, if it is to continue - and one way they do this is through breathing. Nonetheless, all such burning naturally develops and declines, thus describing the life span of the being concerned. Dr Kings' treatment provides a detailed reading of the end of the "Parva Naturalia" ("On the Length and Shortness of Life", "On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death", including "On Breathing"). He shows how the investigation into life begun in the "De Anima" is completed in the "Parva Naturalia", culminating in definitions of the stages of the life cycle, from generation of a new living thing up to death, using the activity of nutrition.
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- Parva Naturalia (Oxford Scholarly Classics) by Aristotle on 28 pages
- Posterior Analytics (Clarendon Aristotle) by Aristotle in Front Matter, page 5, and Back Matter
- On The Soul by Aristotle in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Aristotle on Substance by Mary Louise Gill in Back Matter
- Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for His Life, Writings Thought and Influence : Commentary : Psychology (Texts 265-327) (Philosophia Antiqua) by Pamela Huby in Front Matter
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- Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease by Philip J. van der Eijk in Back Matter
- In the Grip of Disease: Studies in the Greek Imagination by G. E. R. Lloyd in Back Matter
- Foundations of Violence (Death and the Displacement of Beauty) by Grace M Jantzen in Back Matter
- Foundations of Violence (Death and the Displacement of Beauty) by Grace M Jantzen in Back Matter
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