L' anima. Testo greco a fronte

As I have lately been making my way through Aristotle’s physical treatises, I have often observed that many of Aristotle’s errors stem from his tendency to see the physical world as analogous to a biological organism. So it is a pleasure to finally see Aristotle back on his home territory—living thi Leggi tutto

Dealing with the concept of the soul, particularly the human soul, is never an easy thing. We often speak of the soul in a rather facile manner: we talk about how Doctor Faustus or Dorian Grey “sold his soul” to the devil; we say that when R.M.S. Titanic sank on 15 April 1912, “1500 souls were lost. Leggi tutto

"If then we must say something in general about all types of soul, it would be the first actuality of a natural body with organs. We should not then inquire whether the soul and body are one thing, any more than whether the wax and its imprint are, or in general whether the matter of each thing is o Leggi tutto

Ακολουθούν κάποια αποσπάσματα που είναι χαρακτηριστικά του τι συναντάμε στο Περί Ψυχής, του Αριστοτέλη, καθώς και της έκφρασης του, όπως και των διαλεκτικών του εργαλείων, που κατά βάση είναι άλλοτε η υπερβολή, άλλοτε η χρήση του αντιθέτου και απαγωγή εις άτοπο κι άλλοτε η γενίκευση του ειδικού, ή η Leggi tutto

كنت قد قرأت كتاب النفس لابن باجة وهو من اكبر شراح ارسطاطاليس بعد ابن سينا وقد وضح علم النفس على منهج ارسطو اعجبني مما جاء بكتابه قوله من لا يوثق بأنه يعرف حال نفسه فهو اخلق ان لا يوثق به في معرفة غيره أما كتاب النفس لارسطو فقد رأيته ممتعاً اكثر من كتب الشرح بل وابسط الكتاب هنا من ثلاثة اجزاء الاول في مذ Leggi tutto

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Aristotle's De Anima was the primary text for the first part of my course on the history of philosophy: ancient philosophy. It is almost certainly composed of lecture notes by Aristotle and/or some of his more astute students. Its translation as On the Soul in English is likely to mislead, or at lea Leggi tutto

The human being, to Aristotle, is a body soul compound, driven by imagination and appetite, or the calculations of the mind. It is the soul that provide the animation to all animate beings, the pattern of all life to all living things, and the source of formation to all forms.

I thought it was a very good Aristotle work. I would have been disappointed if I would not have read it, by absence of solid foundational theological and metaphysical contemplation. Understand, this is a book on the harmony of different neurological, biological, and symbiotic processes into a centra Leggi tutto

De Anima is filled with striking ideas: that the soul is the form of the body, that it is the body's "potential" or "capacity" and is only actualised in thought or action, that sense-perception receives the "forms" of things and not their "matter", that since everything is potentially an object of t Leggi tutto