The Problem of Life: An Essay in the Origins of Biological ThoughtMacmillan, 1976 - 343 Seiten |
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... Aristotle's works , we may doubt its total success . Aristotle's work , as we shall see , constitutes a complete and closely articulated world system . Like all his predecessors and contemporaries he was under pressure to develop a ...
... Aristotle's works , we may doubt its total success . Aristotle's work , as we shall see , constitutes a complete and closely articulated world system . Like all his predecessors and contemporaries he was under pressure to develop a ...
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... Aristotle's physical treatises with his Metaphysics which , as we saw in the last chapter , has the same overtones . Aristotle's discussion of nature occurs in the context of the Eleatic challenge . No classical philosopher could escape ...
... Aristotle's physical treatises with his Metaphysics which , as we saw in the last chapter , has the same overtones . Aristotle's discussion of nature occurs in the context of the Eleatic challenge . No classical philosopher could escape ...
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... Aristotle's biological endeavour . The vast mass of observational detail upon which the Stagirite's theoretical biology is based is collected in the History of Animals . Indeed this undertaking seems too great to have been the work of ...
... Aristotle's biological endeavour . The vast mass of observational detail upon which the Stagirite's theoretical biology is based is collected in the History of Animals . Indeed this undertaking seems too great to have been the work of ...
Inhalt
Preface | 8 |
The act of imagination | 8 |
The palaeontology of some key words | 17 |
Urheberrecht | |
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