{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0086.tlg018.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg018.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg018.local001","title":"De iuventute et senectute, De vita et morte","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Aristotle","authorityName":"ARISTOTELES Phil. et CORPUS AR-","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0086-aristoteles-phil-et-corpus-ar/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0086-aristoteles-phil-et-corpus-ar/","editors":["Immanuel Bekker"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Aristotelis Opera","edition":null,"publisher":"Oxford University Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1837","volume":"3","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"A Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic Studies, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation","sponsors":[],"funders":["Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Keyboarding","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433022676005?urlappend=%3Bseq=334","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aristotle. De iuventute et senectute, De vita et morte. ed. Immanuel Bekker. Aristotelis Opera, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1837. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg018.local001","excerpt":"Περὶ δὲ νεότητος καὶ γήρως καὶ περὶ ζωῆς καὶ θανάτου λεκτέον νῦν· ἅμα δὲ καὶ περὶ ἀναπνοῆς ἀναγκαῖον ἴσως τὰς αἰτίας εἰπεῖν· ἐνίοις γὰρ τῶν ζῴων διὰ τοῦτο συμβαίνει τὸ ζῆν καὶ τὸ μὴ ζῆν. Ἐπεὶ δὲ περὶ ψυχῆς ἐν ἑτέροις διώρισται, καὶ δῆλον ὅτι οὐχ οἷόν τ’ εἶναι σῶμα τὴν οὐσίαν αὐτῆς, ἀλλ’ ὅμως ὅτι γ’ ἔν τινι τοῦ σώματος ὑπάρχει μορίῳ, φανερόν, καὶ ἐν τούτῳ τινὶ τῶν ἐχόντων δύναμιν ἐν τοῖς μορίοις. Τὰ μὲν οὖν ἄλλα τῆς ψυχῆς ἢ μόρια ἢ δυνάμεις, ὁποτέρως ποτὲ δεῖ καλεῖν, ἀφείσθω τὰ νῦν· ὅσα δὲ ζῷα λέγεται καὶ ζῆν, ἐν μὲν τοῖς ἀμφοτέρων τούτων τετυχηκόσι (λέγω δ’ ἀμφοτέρων τοῦ τε ζῷον εἶναι καὶ τοῦ ζῆν) ἀνάγκη ταὐτὸν εἶναι καὶ ἓν μόριον καθ’ ὅ τε ζῇ καὶ καθ’ ὃ προσαγορεύομεν αὐτὸ ζῷον. Τὸ μὲν γὰρ ζῷον ᾗ ζῷον, ἀδύνατον μὴ ζῆν· ᾗ δὲ ζῇ, ταύτῃ ζῷον ὑπάρχειν οὐκ ἀναγκαῖον· τὰ γὰρ φυτὰ ζῇ μέν, οὐκ ἔχει δ’ αἴσθησιν, τῷ δ’ αἰσθάνεσθαι τὸ ζῷον πρὸς τὸ μὴ ζῷον διορίζομεν. Ἀριθμῷ μὲν οὖν ἀναγκαῖον ἓν…","divisions":[{"label":"ΠΕΡΙ ΝΕΟΤΗΤΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΓΗΡΩΣ. ΠΕΡΙ ΖΩΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΘΑΝΑΤΟΥ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg018.local001/#tlg0086-tlg018-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg018.local001/#tlg0086-tlg018-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg018.local001/#tlg0086-tlg018-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg018.local001/#tlg0086-tlg018-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg018.local001/#tlg0086-tlg018-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg018.local001/#tlg0086-tlg018-local001-6"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg018.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0086.tlg018.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086/tlg018/local001.json.gz"}}