Essays on Aristotle's De AnimaMartha C. Nussbaum, Amélie Oksenberg Rorty Aristotle's philosophy of mind has recently attracted renewed attention and respect from philosophers. This volume brings together outstanding new essays on De Anima by a distinguished international group of contributors including, in this paperback efdition, a new essay by Myles Burnyeat. The essays form a running commentary on the work, covering such topics as the relation between body and soul, sense-perception, imagination, memory, desire, and thought. the authors, writing with philosophical subtlety and wide-ranging scholarship, present the philosophical substance of Aristotle's views to the modern reader. they locate their interpretations firmly within the context of Aristotle's thought as a whole. |
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... psychological, and biological group. Even if we can glean from this a bit of information about Andronicus' ordering of the works, it means that we have no knowledge of what De Anima looked like before his edition, and of whether or not ...
... psychological, and biological group. Even if we can glean from this a bit of information about Andronicus' ordering of the works, it means that we have no knowledge of what De Anima looked like before his edition, and of whether or not ...
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... © Amelie Oksenberg Rorty, 1992. 1 Because it carries many post-Cartesian connotations, 'mind' is not a felicitous translation of Aristotle's nous. (logos) that characterize psychological activities and affections (403b7 ff.), The III.
... © Amelie Oksenberg Rorty, 1992. 1 Because it carries many post-Cartesian connotations, 'mind' is not a felicitous translation of Aristotle's nous. (logos) that characterize psychological activities and affections (403b7 ff.), The III.
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Martha C. Nussbaum, Amélie Oksenberg Rorty. (logos) that characterize psychological activities and affections (403b7 ff.), The affections of the soul (pat hē tēs psuchēs), for instance, are enmattered logoi (ta pathē logoi enhuloi eisin); ...
Martha C. Nussbaum, Amélie Oksenberg Rorty. (logos) that characterize psychological activities and affections (403b7 ff.), The affections of the soul (pat hē tēs psuchēs), for instance, are enmattered logoi (ta pathē logoi enhuloi eisin); ...
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... psychological functions (perception, desire, phantasia) involve material changes, there is neither token nor type correlation between such activities and specific material changes. Nor do psychological functions set constraints on the ...
... psychological functions (perception, desire, phantasia) involve material changes, there is neither token nor type correlation between such activities and specific material changes. Nor do psychological functions set constraints on the ...
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... psychological activities of living things are organized to maintain a specific sort of life. Psychological activities are individuated and identified not only by their contributions to sheer maintenance for survival, but also by their ...
... psychological activities of living things are organized to maintain a specific sort of life. Psychological activities are individuated and identified not only by their contributions to sheer maintenance for survival, but also by their ...
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Page 117 - But it will be said that these phenomena are false and that I am dreaming. Let it be so; still it is at least quite certain that it seems to me that I see light, that I hear noise and that I feel heat. That cannot be false; properly speaking it is what is in me called feeling; and used in this precise sense that is no other thing than thinking.
Page 190 - I say, because for any living thing that has reached its normal development and which is unmutilated, and whose mode of generation is not spontaneous, the most natural act is the production of another like itself, an animal producing an animal, a plant a plant, in order that, as far as its nature allows, it may partake in the eternal and divine. That is the goal towards which all things strive, that for the sake of which they do whatsoever their nature renders possible.
Page 71 - What a thing is is always determined by its function: a thing really is itself when it can perform its function; an eye, for instance, when it can see. When a thing cannot do so it is that thing only in name, like a dead eye or one made of stone, just as a wooden saw is no more a saw than one in a picture.
Page 114 - But what then am I ? A thing which thinks. What is a thing which thinks? It is a thing which doubts, understands, [conceives], affirms, denies, wills, refuses, which also imagines and feels.
Page 115 - Thought is a word that covers everything that exists in us in such a way that we are immediately conscious of it.
Page 171 - For those who wish to get clear of difficulties it is advantageous to discuss the difficulties well; for the subsequent free play of thought implies the solution of the previous difficulties, and it is not possible to untie a knot of which one does not know. But the difficulty of our thinking points to a 'knot...
Page 114 - I considered myself as having a face, hands, arms, and all that system of members composed of bones and flesh as seen in a corpse which I designated by the name of body. In addition to this I considered that I was nourished, that I walked, that I felt, and that I thought, and I referred all these actions to the soul: but I did not stop to consider what the soul was, or if I did stop, I imagined that it was something extremely rare and subtle like a wind, a flame, or an ether, which was spread throughout...
Page 190 - Or as eye, hand, foot, and in general each of the parts evidently has a function, may one lay it down that man similarly has a function apart from all these? What then can this be? Life seems to belong even to plants, but we are seeking what is peculiar to man. Let us exclude, therefore, the life of nutrition and growth.
Page 122 - But there is an almost total neglect of any problem arising from psycho-physical dualism and the facts of consciousness. Such problems do not seem to arise for him. The reason appears to be that concepts like that of consciousness do not figure in his conceptual schema at all; they play no part in his analysis of perception, thought, etc. (Nor do they play any significant role in Greek thought in general.) Recent work in AI and cognitive psychology has moved away from a sharp mindbody dualism.
Page 239 - asses would prefer sweepings to gold' ; for food is pleasanter than gold to asses. So the pleasures of creatures different in kind differ in kind, and it is plausible to suppose that those of a single species do not differ. But they vary to no small extent, in the case of men at least ; the same things delight some people and pain others, and are painful and odious to some, and pleasant to and liked by others. This happens, too, in the case of sweet things; the same things do not seem sweet to a...