Aristotle, De motu animalium: Text and Translation

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The book contains a new critical edition of the Greek text of Aristotle's De Motu Animalium and an English translation of the new text by Benjamin Morison, preceded by an introduction by Christof Rapp and Oliver Primavesi. The introduction comes in two parts: (i) a philosophical introduction by Christof Rapp that aims at drawing a kind of balance of more than three decades of scholarly debate on our treatise and related issues since the publication of Martha Nussbaum's edition and commentary in 1978; (ii) a textual introduction by Oliver Primavesi that sums up the history of textual research on the transmission of De Motu Animalium up to and including the discovery of a new branch of transmission. Cover Aristotle, De Motu Animalium: A New Critical Edition of the Greek Text Copyright Contents Foreward Introduction Part I: The Argument of De Motu Animalium 1. Aristotle’s De Motu Animalium: Its Topic and Purpose 2. The Structure of De Motu Animalium 3. Authenticity (i) A Misguided or Inserted Reference in MA 10? (ii) Sparse Evidence in Ancient Testimonies? (iii) The Alleged Lack of Thematic Unity 4. The Chronology of the De Motu Animalium 5. Incompatibility of the De Motu Animalium with the Psychology of De Anima? (i) Cardiocentrism and Instrumentalism (ii) The Developmental Approach (iii) Integrating Cardiocentrism (iv) Integrating or Mitigating Instrumentalism? 6. The Seemingly Unrelated Appearance of the Connate Pneuma in MA 10 7. The MA: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry? 8. The Explanandum of the Common Cause (i) The Non-Locomotive Case (ii) The Non-Intentional Case 9. Mechanical and Bio-Kinematical Assumptions (i) The Impact of Early Mechanics (ii) Mechanistic Accounts and Intentional Movement (iii) Bio-Kinematical Questions 10. The Practical Syllogism (i) The Textual Evidence (ii) Rule—Case vs. Means—End Examples (iii) Exegetical Difficulties (iv) Making Sense of the Practical Syllogism 11. The Role of Phantasia (i) A Privileged or Even Necessary Role for Phantasia? (ii) The Alleged Star Witnesses for a Necessary Role of Phantasia (iii) Other Considerations in Favour of a Necessary Role for Phantasia (iv) Conclusions and Suggestions 12. Desire and Affections (i) Emotions and Other Affections (ii) Desire (Orexis) (iii) The Somatic Implementation of Desire 13. Self-Movers and Unmoved Movers (i) Self-Movers (ii) Unmoved Prerequisites and Unmoved Movers Introduction Part II: The Text of De Motu Animalium 1. The Key Passage: MA 6, 700b17–25 2. P’s Reading of 700b23–4: A Byzantine Conjecture? 3. Jaeger 1913: Two Manuscript Families and One Open Question 4. Torraca 1958: William of Moerbeke and Cod. Vaticanus P 5. Wartelle 1963: The First List of MA Manuscripts 6. Louis 1973: An Intuition—but No Evidence 7. Nussbaum 1975: The Lost ‘Majuscule MS’ 8. De Leemans 2011: William’s Two Models and a New Group of Greek Mss. 9. On the Eve of the 2011 Symposium 10. A Final Challenge: Escobar 1990 on De Insomniis 11. Primavesi 2011: A New Hyparchetype (i) MA 2, 698b12–17: Mice in Pitch (ii) MA 3, 699a12–14: An External Point of Rest for the Universe? (iii) MA 7, 701a36–b1: Prohairesis (iv) MA 7, 701b1–7: The automatic theatres 12. Back to Andronicus: Second Thoughts on 700b17–25 13. Isépy 2013 on the Greek Models of the Two Mediaeval Translations 14. Koch 2015 on Michael of Ephesus 15. A New Stemma of the Independent Tradition 16. The New Text, Its Three Apparatus, and the English Translation Appendix I: The Forty-Seven Known Greek Manuscripts of MA Appendix II: The Principal Manuscripts of William’s Translation and Their Affiliation According to De Leemans 2011a Appendix III: 120 Divergences (Primavesi 2023 | Nussbaum 1978) Appendix IV: The Stemmatic Position of Berolinensis Be in De Insomniis A New Critical Edition of the Greek Text with an English Translation Sigla Bibliography Index Locorum Index of Names