Aristotle: On Sleep and Dreams
by Gallop, DavidFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1996-12-01
Publisher(s): Liverpool University Press
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Summary
An edition and translation of Aristotle's three essays on sleep and dreams which is primarily intended as providing the material for their study placing them within a modern context which discusses not only classical philosophy but also contemporary accounts of dreaming.
Author Biography
David Gallop is Professor of Philosophy (Emeritus) at Trent University, Ontario.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Preface | |
| Note on the Text and Translation | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Aristotle's Life and Work | p. 1 |
| The Parva Naturalia | p. 4 |
| The Greek Concept of Dreaming | p. 6 |
| Plato's Legacy | p. 11 |
| The De Somno and the De Insomniis | p. 19 |
| Dreams and the Imagination | p. 21 |
| Dreaming and Teleology | p. 28 |
| The Function of Dreams | p. 32 |
| Aristotle and Freud | p. 38 |
| Dreams and the 'Daemonic' | p. 43 |
| Aristotle and Malcolm | p. 48 |
| Conclusion | p. 57 |
| Text and Translation | p. 59 |
| On Sleep and Waking | p. 60 |
| On Dreams | p. 84 |
| On Divination through Sleep | p. 106 |
| Notes On Sleep and Waking | p. 118 |
| Notes On Dreams | p. 135 |
| Notes On Divination through Sleep | p. 156 |
| Aristotle's Historia Animalium, IV. 10 | p. 173 |
| Glossary | p. 180 |
| Select Bibliography | p. 191 |
| Index | p. 197 |
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