Sulla giovinezza e la vecchiaia
- Lingua:
- inglese
- Stato:
- Opera completa
- Autorialità:
- Scritta dall'autore
- Stato del testo:
- Nessun rumore di scansione rilevato (misura automatica su tutto il testo, non verificata a mano)
- Estensione:
- ~2530 parole · 12 passi
Cita quest'opera
- APAAristotele. (n.d.). On Youth and Old Age [Sulla giovinezza e la vecchiaia]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/aristotle/on-youth-and-old-age
- MLAAristotele. On Youth and Old Age [Sulla giovinezza e la vecchiaia]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/it/works/aristotle/on-youth-and-old-age.
- ChicagoAristotele. On Youth and Old Age [Sulla giovinezza e la vecchiaia]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/aristotle/on-youth-and-old-age.
Riferimento all’edizione riprodotta. SigPhi è la riproduzione digitale. Anno, editore e traduttore compaiono quando noti; «n.d.» indica un anno sconosciuto.
Di che cosa tratta
La giovinezza, la vecchiaia e quello che sta in mezzo, spiegati con il calore vitale e il suo esaurirsi.
Contesto e storia
Nei manoscritti corre di solito senza stacco insieme agli scritti sulla respirazione e sulla vita e la morte, e tutti e tre trattano la stessa cosa: che cosa tiene in vita un corpo e che cosa si esaurisce. Fa parte dei Parva naturalia, gli otto scritti brevi che continuano il De anima applicandone la teoria a fenomeni particolari del corpo vivente. Sono tramandati in blocco e si leggono meglio insieme.
Contesto editoriale, non una fonte citabile: a differenza dei passi dell'opera, questi dati non si possono verificare sul corpus.
This organ, then, must be numerically one and the same and yet possess multiple and disparate aspects, for being animal and living are not identical. Since then the organs of special sensation have one common organ in which the senses when functioning must meet, and this must be situated midway between what is called before and behind (we call 'before' the direction from which sensation comes, 'behind' the opposite), further, since in all living things the body is divided into upper and lower (they all have upper and lower parts, so that this is true of plants as well), clearly the nutritive principle must be situated midway between these regions. That part where food enters we call upper, considering it by itself and not relatively to the surrounding universe, while downward is that part by which the primary excrement is discharged. Plants are the reverse of animals in this respect. To man in particular among the animals, on account of his erect stature, belongs the characteristic of having his upper parts pointing upwards in the sense in which that applies to the universe, while in the others these are in an intermediate position. But in plants, owing to their being stationary and drawing their sustenance from the ground, the upper part must always be down; for there is a correspondence between the roots in a plant and what is called the mouth in animals, by means of which they take in their food, whether the source of supply be the earth or each other's bodies. Part 2 All perfectly formed animals are to be divided into three parts, one that by which food is taken in, one that by which excrement is discharged, and the third the region intermediate between them. In the largest animals this latter is called the chest and in the others something corresponding; in some also it is more distinctly marked off than in others.…