Homo Animal Nobilissimum
Subtitle: Konturen Des Spezifisch Menschlichen in Der Naturphilosophischen Aristoteleskommentierung Des Dreizehnten Jahrhunderts, Teilband ... Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters)
Publisher: Brill
Published: February 28, 2008
Language: ger
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 986
ISBN-13: 9789004162891
Subjects: Western philosophy; World history: c 500 to C 1500; History; History - General History; History: World; Medieval; History & Surveys - Medieval
Description: This volume deals with the philosophical approach of thirteenth-century masters to concrete, practical manifestations of specifically human life quantum ad naturalia in their commentaries on Aristotle's works on natural philosophy, both the genuine ones and the ones then considered genuine. It inquires into what they deemed worthy of philosophical debate regarding this topic and how they tackled it. This volume completes as Teilband II the researches initiated in a previous volume (Teilband 1) and describes the scholars' discourses on the peculiarity of human body constitution, the specifically human cognitive faculties and operations, human speech and animal vocal communication, human action and animal activity, human emotional behaviour, and human and animal ways of life. This is the first comprehensive source-based study on the subject; it draws heavely on inedited texts.