Aristotle. On Youth and Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 1-6

This book is devoted to the last part of Aristotle's collection of short treatises known today asthe Parva Naturalia, i.e. the treatiseOn Youth and Old Age, on Life and Death, on Respiration. In the three main sections of the book, the author offers a translation, a commentary and a thorough analysis of thiswork. The author argues in favour of the unity of the workand contextualises its ideas within Aristotle'scorpusand the medical tradition of his time. After an Introduction to the nature of the work and its significance for the history of natural philosophy and science, a new English translation follows, along with a detailed commentary of Chapters 1-6, which combinesphilosophical discussion with philological observations. The book includes four interpretive essays, which tackle problems related to the whole treatise on a more philosophical basis, including questions about the structure and unity ofthe work, the organisation of the material, Aristotle's methodological principles, his aims and target audienceas well as the relevance of his selected themes to the thematic agenda of some Hippocratic writings.This book is of interest to students and researchers in Aristotle's psychophysiology, andhis views about the embodied mind, as well as to anyone concerned withthe history of natural philosophy and science more generally.