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From animal bodies to human souls : (pseudo-)Aristotelian animals in Della Porta’s Physiognomics

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Muratori, Cecilia (2017) From animal bodies to human souls : (pseudo-)Aristotelian animals in Della Porta’s Physiognomics. Early Science and Medicine, 22 (1). pp. 1-23. doi:10.1163/15733823-00221p01 ISSN 1383-7427 .

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Abstract

This article analyses the role that animals play in Della Porta’s method of physiognomics. It claims that Della Porta created his own, original, method by appropriating, and yet selectively adapting Aristotelian and pseudo-Aristotelian sources. This has not been adequately reconstructed before in previous studies on Della Porta. I trace, in two steps, the conceptual trajectory of Della Porta’s physiognomics, from human psychology to animal psychology, and ultimately from psychology to ethics. In the first step, I show how Della Porta substantially adapts the physiognomic principle of the body-soul relationship as found in the pseudo-Aristotelian Physiognomonica. In the second, I demonstrate that the real aim of Della Porta’s physiognomics is a practical one, namely understanding how to live a good life, and I explain why he refers to Aristotle in order to ground this conception.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General)
B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
Q Science > QL Zoology
Q Science > QP Physiology
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Physiognomy , Physiognomy in literature , Facial expression, Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615, Aristotle, Human-animal relationships
Journal or Publication Title: Early Science and Medicine
Publisher: Brill ; Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISSN: 1383-7427
Official Date: 22 March 2017
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22 March 2017Published
4 February 2017Accepted
Volume: 22
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 1-23
DOI: 10.1163/15733823-00221p01
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 24 February 2017
Date of first compliant Open Access: 22 March 2019
Funder: European Research Council (ERC)
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