Aristotle's De anima : a guide /
"Aristotle's De Anima explores the concept of the psuchê, a distinctively Greek concept that overlaps in certain respects with our modern notions of the mind or the soul, but that applies to plants and non-human animals, as well as to human beings. In the De Anima, Aristotle develops an in...
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[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- The Rylean passage
- Further reading
- 3 Psuchê and Sôma in De Anima Book I
- 3.1 The affections of the psuchê and the question of separability
- 3.2 Reincarnation and commonality
- 3.3 The harmonia theory in Plato's Phaedo
- 3.4 Aristotle on harmonia
- 3.5 Perception, the body, and the elements
- Further reading
- 4 A beginner's guide to Aristotle on matter, form, and substance
- 4.1 Matter and form in Physics I
- 4.2 Matter, form and explanation in Physics II.1 and II.2
- 4.3 Matter, form, and the four aitia in Physics II.3 and II.7
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Texts
- 1 Introducing Aristotle and the De Anima
- 1.1 Aristotle's life and times
- 1.2 Personality, temperament, and prose style
- 1.3 The corpus aristotelicum
- 1.4 What is the psuchê?
- Further reading
- 2 Aristotle and his predecessors: The question of motion
- 2.1 What is Aristotle doing in DA I?
- 2.2 The three characteristics
- 2.3 Motion and the psuchê
- The resurrection reductio
- The Philippus/Democritus argument
- The magnitude reductio
- 4.4 Actuality and potentiality in Metaphysics Eta
- Further reading
- 5 The accounts of psuchê in De Anima II
- 5.1 Aristotle's official account of the psuchê
- 5.2 Looking back to the program of DA I
- 5.3 Separability in DA II.1
- 5.4 The mysterious sailor
- 5.5 Beyond the official account: Setting the agenda for the remainder of De Anima
- Further reading
- 6 Nourishment and perception
- 6.1 The structure of the hierarchy
- 6.2 The plan of attack
- 6.3 Nutrition and generation
- 6.4 Perception, motion, and alteration
- 6.5 The objects of perception
- 6.6 Looking ahead
- Further reading
- 7 Perception and the senses
- 7.1 The need for a medium
- 7.2 The causality of perception
- 7.3 Perception as form transmission
- Further reading
- 8 Perception and imagination
- 8.1 Perception in the Theaetetus
- 8.2 Common sensibles and cross-modal perception (DA III.1)
- 8.3 Perceiving that we perceive (DA III.2)
- 8.4 What is phantasia?
- 8.5 Conclusion
- Further reading
- 9 Varieties of nous
- 9.1 Nous: Terminology and taxonomy
- 9.2 The starting points for interpreting nous
- 9.3 Perception and abstraction in DA III.4.
- 9.4 Who or what is DA III.5 about?
- Further reading
- 10 The springs of action
- 10.1 Bridging from the epistemic to the practical: DA III.6-8
- 10.2 The role of desire
- 10.3 Thought and action
- Further reading
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index