The where before the place: διαστάσεις in Aristotle's De incessu animalium
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Function, Teleology, Dimensions, BiologyAbstract
This work has as its main aim to present the exposition of the διαστάσεις that Aristotle does in De Incessu Animalium (IA). At this treatise they are described through the exercise of the soul's functions of each group of a living being, establishing a dependent relation between the dimensions and the powers of the soul held by a given living being. Therefore, it is about understanding, in a general view, how the function of the soul of a living being subordinate its structure, or, in other words, how the effective actualization of a living being brings about the manifestation of these dimensions. Moreover, there is an exact correspondence between the dimensions and these functions in the human body, setting it, thus, as a model from which the other bodies may be described. In this manner, the limits of the dimensions are manifested through the functions of the soul whose distinctions are found, above all others, in man.References
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