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  • Chapter 11 - Soul’s Tools

  • from II - Aristotle
  • Edited by Hynek Bartoš, Charles University, Prague, Colin Guthrie King, Providence College, Rhode Island
  • Book:
    Heat, Pneuma, and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science
    Published online:
    20 February 2020
    Print publication:
    12 March 2020, pp 243-259

  • Summary

    Gelber focuses on passages in GA where Aristotle treats heat and cold as agents which are said to be making (poiei), fabricating (dêmiourgei), solidifying (pêgnutai), putting together (sunistatai), or working (ergazetai) to accomplish something, and thereby playing a role in the formation of a living organism. Gelber s aim is to explain how heat and cold do this, and the significance, for Aristotle, of calling heat and cold the tools of soul in his explanation of animal reproduction.

  • Chapter 9 - Aristotle on the Powers of Thermic Equilibrium

  • from II - Aristotle
  • Edited by Hynek Bartoš, Charles University, Prague, Colin Guthrie King, Providence College, Rhode Island
  • Book:
    Heat, Pneuma, and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science
    Published online:
    20 February 2020
    Print publication:
    12 March 2020, pp 202-216

  • Summary

    Popa focuses on the role of the two basic active dunameis, the hot and the cold, in Aristotle, Meteorology IV. There, the dispositional properties of the homoeomers are often defined and explained in virtue of bodies’ reactions to heat and cold: some homogeneous bodies are solidifiable by heat, others by cold. Popa argues that Meteor. IV aims to account for the coming about and persistence of uniform stuffs by appealing to what he calls “thermic equilibrium” (summetria, logos). The main purpose of this chapter is to clarify the ways in which Aristotle puts this notion to work in his study of homogeneous materials (especially in Meteor. IV) and, through this clarification, to contribute to a better understanding of the role played by proper or internal natural heat in his scientific works.

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