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.

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从动物的身体到人类的灵魂：Della Porta 的相貌学中的（伪）亚里士多德动物


本文分析了动物在 Della Porta 的相貌方法中所起的作用。它声称 Della Porta 通过挪用并有选择地改编亚里士多德和伪亚里士多德的资料，创造了他自己的、原创的方法。在之前对 Della Porta 的研究中，这一点尚未得到充分重建。我分两步追溯德拉波塔的相貌学的概念轨迹，从人类心理学到动物心理学，最终从心理学到伦理学。在第一步中，我展示了 Della Porta 如何实质上适应了在伪亚里士多德面相中发现的身体-灵魂关系的面相学原理。在第二部分中，我证明了 Della Porta 相貌学的真正目的是实用的，即了解如何过上美好的生活，