Aristotle: On Sleep and Dreams

by Gallop, David

• ISBN13: 9780856686740
• ISBN10: 0856686743
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-12-01
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

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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