Dear Rob, I'm on the list for several groups but don't have time for all, unfortunaely. Aristotle's De Anima is fundamental to biology and psychology. He...
Judy Wubnig
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Sep 1, 2003 11:09 pm
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Dear Mr. Kabiri, Anything by Aristotle is good, including the logical works grouped as the Organon. However, Aristotle's work On the Soul (De Anima in Latin),...
Judy Wubnig
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Sep 1, 2003 11:23 pm
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This invitation pertains to two different groups. One is the plato-phaedo list, the other is a list called philosophy2. Both are groups that existed in the...
I'm trying to find a certain text where I remember Aristotle saying that a view is strong if the cause that it posits predicts many phenomena successfully - in...
I'm reading De Anima now, and will soon be posting my simple summaries of the chapters. I'm relatively new to Aristotle, so I will not attempt much analysis;...
This is my first post of summaries of the chapters. My purpose is not to study (or even grasp) Aristotle's detailed points, but to gain an initial and general...
Book 1, Chapter 2 Aristotle begins an overview of the views of his predecessors by noting that the most widely held beliefs are that ensouled things differ...
Is Aristotle perhaps referring to the Logos, "Listening not to me but the logos . . .? Judy Wubnig ... This mail sent through www.mywaterloo.ca...
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Nov 15, 2004 3:32 am
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Hi Judy, I think you are right. The Ross translation is easier to read, though I found it surprisingly different from the Lawson-Tancred translation: ...
In chapter 3, Aristotle searches for the nature and cause of the soul's movement. He discusses the possibility that the soul moves itself, and submits that if...
Aristotle begins chapter 4 by rejecting the notion that the soul is a kind of harmony. The soul is not a harmony of composition of quantities, because, for...
Aristotle draws out several problems with the view that the soul is composed of all the elements by which it can know them (as knowledge is supposed to be of...
Having completed his review of earlier views on what soul is, Aristotle turns to working out his own view. In an argument that escapes me (412a-b), he derives...
Aristotle begins with a methodological note, that the majority of definitions are like statements of a conclusion, whereas a better definition also contains...
Aristotle notes that the different kinds of soul form a series or dependency progression, i.e., all souls with the power of perception also have the power of...
Translations from Lawson-Tancred, except from Ross as noted. Aristotle begins discussing the faculties with an examination of nutrition and sense-objects and...
Quotes are from Lawson-Tancred, except as noted. Turning to all perception, Aristotle repeats that perception is a kind of alteration. He explains that the...
In this short chapter, Aristotle identifies three different kinds of sense-object: special, general, and the incidental. The special and general are...
Aristotle begins his analysis of sight by stating that the object of sight is the visible, which is color and also something for which there is no single name...
The gist of Aristotle's straightforward account of sound can be found in a line at 420a: "That which sounds is that which produces motion in such air as is...
Chapter 9 Aristotle notes that the sense of smell is far less accurate in man than in some animals, whereas man excels at sight and especially at touch. (In a...
Chapter 11 Aristotle begins this discussion of the faculty of touch by raising these issues: (a) is touch a single sense or many? (b) what is the sense-organ...
Quotes are from Lawson-Tancred except as noted. Book 3, Chapter 1 Aristotle begins with an explanation of why, given the number and types of elements and their...
This chapter discusses imagination. Aristotle begins by stating that thinking and understanding are like perceiving, in that by both does the soul apprehend...
Quotes are from Lawson-Tancred except as noted. Chapter 4 Turning to that part of the soul which has both cognition and understanding, Aristotle states it must...
This is a very important chapter - in it, Aristotle argues to the immateriality of the soul. Regarding 429b10-21, I believe Aristotle is describing the object...
Quotes are from Lawson-Tancred. Chapter 5 This abbreviated chapter mentions an active factor of mind which "makes", whereas the intellect already discussed...
Chapter 7 Lawson-Tancred says this chapter has a fragmentary quality to it, having no consistent line of argument. Aristotle covers: a special kind of...
Quotes are from Lawson-Tancred. Chapter 10 Aristotle concludes from the preceding chapter that both desire and "the intellect which reasons for a purpose" are...
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