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Author: Sean Kelsey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-12-16
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1108832911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis innovative new reading of Aristotle's De Anima sheds new light on a most important and difficult ancient philosophical text.
Author: Erick Raphael Jiménez
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-07-06
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1107194180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fresh interpretation of this important and widely misunderstood concept as an acquired ability to make principles and essences intelligible.
Author: Ronald Polansky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-09-24
Total Pages: 525
ISBN-13: 1139466054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAristotle's De Anima was the first systematic philosophical account of the soul, which serves to explain the functioning of all mortal living things. In his commentary, Ronald Polansky argues that the work is far more structured and systematic than previously supposed.
Author: Aristotle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-05-11
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0191026433
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'. . . the more honourable animals have been allotted a more honourable soul. . . ' What is the nature of the soul? It is this question that Aristotle sought to answer in De Anima (On the Soul). In doing so he offers a psychological theory that encompasses not only human beings but all living beings. Its basic thesis, that the soul is the form of an organic body, sets it in sharp contrast with both Pre-Socratic physicalism and Platonic dualism. On the Soul contains Aristotle's definition of the soul, and his explanations of nutrition, perception, cognition, and animal self-motion. The general theory in De Anima is augmented in the shorter works of Parva Naturalia, which deal with perception, memory and recollection, sleep and dreams, longevity, life-cycles, and psycho-physiology. This new translation brings together all of Aristotle's extant and complementary psychological works, and adds as a supplement ancient testimony concerning his lost writings dealing with the soul. The introduction by Fred D. Miller, Jr. explains the central place of the soul in Aristotle's natural science, the unifying themes of his psychological theory, and his continuing relevance for modern philosophy and psychology.
Author: David Charles
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-03-16
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0192640887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAristotle initiated the systematic investigation of perception, the emotions, memory, desire and action, developing his own account of these phenomena and their interconnection. The Undivided Self aims to gain a philosophical understanding of his views and to examine how far they withstand critical scrutiny. Aristotle's account, it is argued, constitutes a philosophically live alternative to conventional post-Cartesian thinking about psychological phenomena and their place in a material world. Charles offers a way to dissolve, rather than solve, the mind-body problem we have inherited.
Author: R. D. Hicks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-03-12
Total Pages: 713
ISBN-13: 1107492505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1907, this book contains the ancient Greek text of Aristotle's De Anima, his treatise on the differing souls of living things. An English translation is provided on each facing page, and Hicks supplies a very detailed commentary on each line at the end of the book, as well as a summary of each section. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Greek philosophy and the history of classical scholarship.
Author: Igor Aleksander
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9814343498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAristotle's convincing philosophy is likely to have shaped (even indirectly) many of our current beliefs, prejudices and attitudes to life. This includes the way in which our mind (that is, our capacity to have private thoughts) appears to elude a scientific description. This book is about a scientific ingredient that was not available to Aristotle: the science of information. Would the course of the philosophy of the mind have been different had Aristotle pronounced that the matter of mind was information? This "mind is information" assertion is often heard in contemporary debates, and this book explores the verities and falsehoods of this proposition.
Author: Aryeh Kosman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013-03-01
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0674075021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnderstanding “what something is” has long occupied philosophers, and no Western thinker has had more influence on the nature of being than Aristotle. Focusing on a reinterpretation of the concept of energeia as “activity,” Aryeh Kosman reexamines Aristotle’s ontology and some of our most basic assumptions about the great philosopher’s thought.
Author: Martha Craven Nussbaum
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 019823600X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAristotle'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. Theessays 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'sviews to the modern reader. they locate their interpretations firmly within the context of Aristotle's thought as a whole.
Author: Sarah Broadie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-07-22
Total Pages: 479
ISBN-13: 1009035835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlato's Sun-Like Good is a revolutionary discussion of the Republic's philosopher-rulers, their dialectic, and their relation to the form of the good. With detailed arguments Sarah Broadie explains how, if we think of the form of the good as 'interrogative', we can re-conceive those central reference-points of Platonism in down-to-earth terms without loss to our sense of Plato's philosophical greatness. The book's main aims are: first, to show how for Plato the form of the good is of practical value in a way that we can understand; secondly, to make sense of the connection he draws between dialectic and the form of the good; and thirdly, to make sense of the relationship between the form of the good and other forms while respecting the contours of the sun-good analogy and remaining faithful to the text of the Republic itself.
