Aristotle's De Anima
A Critical Commentary
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- Author: Ronald Polansky, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh
- Date Published: July 2010
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Aristotle's De anima is 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. He contends that Aristotle seeks a comprehensive understanding of the soul and its faculties.
Read more- Provides detailed analysis of every passage in Aristotle's De Anima and clearly interprets vexed section of the text
- Covers the secondary literature on the De Anima, and situates the work in its ancient context and in relation to contemporary views
- Written for readers without Greek as well as scholars in the field
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"It is a thorough work with often illuminating lines of interpretation, which provides a coherent account of the three books of the De anima. While its target audience is certainly the scholarly world, the book will also appeal to students, its style having an important pedagogical component. From the beginning of the volume, it is apparent that the work is not only a commentary, but also offers a complete picture of Aristotle's treatise and thus provides the references and details that a scholar of the De anima needs. This approach necessarily makes the commentary lengthy and gives the reader more than just one author's point of view on Aristotle's De anima, but it also makes this an important tool of research--a tool that cannot be ignored by any scholar of this work. " --BCMR
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- Date Published: July 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521148856
- length: 598 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 34 mm
- weight: 0.87kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The De Anima and self-knowledge
2. Study of soul in relation to physics
3. The cognitive faculties and physics
4. Aristotle's procedures and the quest for thoroughness
5. Background assumptions for study of the soul
6. The truth and interest of the De Anima
7. The text of the De Anima
Book 1:
1. The nobility and difficulty of study of soul. Its connection with body
2. The predecessors' use of soul to account for motion and perception
3. Criticism of predecessors' way of accounting for motion
4. Criticism of the harmonia view as an account of motion
5. Criticism of predecessors' way of accounting for cognition
Book 2:
1. Definition of soul
2. What is life?
3. How powers of soul are distributed and united in the soul
4. The nutritive faculty, its object and subfaculties
5. Clarification of being affected, living as saving, and the first definition of sense
6. The three sorts of sensible objects
7. Vision, its medium, and object
8. Hearing, sound, and voice
9. Smell and odor
10. Taste is a contact sense. The tasteable
11. Touch, the tangibles, and sense as a mean
12. Definition of sense and whether sensibles affect non-perceiving bodies
Book 3:
1. In the world as it is there can be but the five senses
2. What allows for perceiving that we perceive? Sense comes together in a common power so that the five senses are subfaculties of a central sense faculty
3. Distinguishing sense and thought. What is phantasia?
4. What is mind as that capable of thinking all things
5. What enables thinking to occur
6. The sorts of intelligible objects
7. Phantasia has a role in all thinking
8. The mind can think all things
9. There is a capacity for progressive motion
10. The desiderative capacity is the primary cause of progressive motion
11. Even the simplest animals have indefinite phantasia and calculative phantasia fits the account of progressive motion
12. The necessary order of the faculties of the soul
13. The sort of body requisite to support the order of the faculties of soul
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