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Loading... On the Soulby Aristoteles, Aristotle
None. Okay, Aristotle basically came up with this whole "soul" deal, and it's another trophy on his wall, for sure. But better than that: He also came up with the whole five-part division of the senses into visual, aural, olfactory, tactile, and gustatory. In this book! (  ) MeditationesMartini | Dec 3, 2009 |  A nice review of the literature and then a scientific, but abstract, discussion about the things the soul might be -- parts vs. not, a cause of motion vs. not, a source of deliberation or not. (  ) jpsnow | May 26, 2008 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0140444718, Paperback)For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to inhabit. Plato's student Aristotle was determined to test the truth of both these beliefs against the emerging sciences of logic and biology. His examination of the huge variety of living organisms the enormous range of their behaviour, their powers and their perceptual sophistication convinced him of the inadequacy both of a materialist reduction and of a Platonic sublimation of the soul. In De Anima, he sought to set out his theory of the soul as the ultimate reality of embodied form and produced both a masterpiece of philosophical insight and a psychology of perennially fascinating subtlety.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:29:06 -0500) No library descriptions found. |
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