On Sleep and Sleeplessness

Name: On Sleep and Sleeplessness
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Aristotle
ISBN: 9781787364707

Author: Aristotle

Narrator: Mia Goodrum

Unabridged: 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Interactive Media

Published: 10/04/2022

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Synopsis

Aristotle's On Sleep and Sleeplessness is a treatise on the nature of sleep and wakefulness. In it, Aristotle discusses the various causes of sleep and wakefulness, as well as the benefits and drawbacks of each. He also offers some practical advice on how to achieve a good night's sleep. Read in English, unabridged.

About Aristotle

Aristotle (384-322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, and a tutor to Alexander the Great. His writings, on such diverse subjects as rhetoric, logic, politics, ethics, biology, physics, and poetry, comprise some of the foundations of Western philosophy. He wrote as many as 200 treatises during his lifetime, of which only 31 survive. Of these, Aristotle's best-known works include Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Eudemian Ethics, Politics, and On the Soul.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Viji on May 31, 2014

A treatise on sleep,but not much is said of sleeplessness even though it's given so in the title. Aristotle explains why animals sleep and plants do not. He also talks about different kinds of sleep,the usual rest period,sleep due to disease and sleep after food. The language is clear and no-nonsens......more

Goodreads review by Truls on February 08, 2021

En genomgång av aristoteles föreställningar om de fysiska delarna av sömnen. De är logiska utifrån hans premisser. Däremot är det inte speciellt användbart utanför det historiska referensmaterialet.......more

Goodreads review by Brian on November 30, 2013

On Sleep written by Aristotle and translated by J.I. Beare is an ancient treatise on said subject. As with many things in an Aristotelian view of the universe sleep and being awake are contraries in which one can only exist when the other is absent. In the case of sleep I believe that he is mostly a......more

Goodreads review by Jairo on November 21, 2018

Aristóteles tenta explicar os contrários (sono e vigília) em mais esse pequeno texto. Coloca as funções do sono e vigília relacionadas à consciência, sendo o sono em parte algo como a ausência da percepção. Compara os animais com as plantas, as últimas não possuindo esses sentidos e por consequência......more

Goodreads review by Emerson John on April 07, 2020

early observation about sleeping......more