О МЕСТЕ ТРАКТАТА О ЮНОСТИ И СТАРОСТИ, ЖИЗНИ И СМЕРТИ И О ДЫХАНИИ В КОРПУСЕ АРИСТОТЕЛЕВСКИХ СОЧИНЕНИЙ, ЕГО НАЗВАНИИ И РАЗДЕЛЕНИИ ТЕКСТА ИЗДАТЕЛЯМИ
ON THE PLACE OF THE TREATISE “ON YOUTH AND OLD AGE, LIFE AND DEATH, AND ON RESPIRATION” WITHIN THE CORPUS ARISTOTELICUM, ITS TITLE AND THE EDITORIAL DIVISION OF THE TEXT

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with some textual issues related with Aristotle’s treatise “On Youth and Old Age, Life and Death” (De juventute et senectute et vita et morte). This text is conventionally included in the so-called “small scientific works” (Parva naturalia). In the article I consider the variant titles testified in the sources as well as the place the treatise occupies within the set of Aristotle’s scientific works. I trace the parallels of this treatise with another Aristotle’s writings, such as “De longitudine et brevitate vitae” and “De anima”. The treatise is further compared with Aristotle’s works on physics and biology, esp. “De partibus animalium”, “De motu animalium”, “De generatione animalium”. I discuss the concept of life, functions of the vegetative soul, its “medial” location, and Aristotle’s definition of the soul’s and body’s «midpoint» in respect to the «upward» and «downward» directions. For understanding the meaning of the term «innate natural heat» it is proposed to compare it with the terminology of such Aristotelian works as “De motu animalium” and “De generatione animalium”.

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