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Chapter 10 - Why Animals Must Keep Their Cool: Aristotle on the Need for Respiration (and Other Forms of Cooling)

from II - Aristotle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 February 2020

By
James G. Lennox
Edited by
Hynek Bartoš  and
Colin Guthrie King
Hynek Bartoš
Affiliation:
Charles University, Prague
Colin Guthrie King
Affiliation:
Providence College, Rhode Island
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Lennox explores the role of cooling in the regulation of natural heat and the preservation of life with special interest in methodological questions about how Aristotle arrived at his views about the critical role of cooling in the lives of blooded animals and why he insists that both the brain and the lungs are involved in moderating the animal’s heat. Lennox concludes that Aristotle was somewhat perplexed by the brain, and that his changing views about its presence in the cephalopods may be an indication of that perplexity.

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Aristotlerespirationheatcoldnutritive soulanatomyheartcoolingbrain
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Heat, Pneuma, and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science , pp. 217 - 242
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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