Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 429 pages)
ISBN:
9789004247635
Series Statement:
Brill's studies in intellectual history v. 112
Content:
Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE: ARISTOTLE'S PSYCHOLOGY RECONSIDERED -- CHAPTER TWO: THE MODERN DEBATE ON ARISTOTLE'S PSYCHOLOGY -- CHAPTER THREE: PNEUMA AS THE ORGANON OF THE SOUL IN DE MOTU ANIMALIUM -- CHAPTER FOUR: WHAT BODY IS SUITABLE FOR RECEIVING THE SOUL {DE ANIMA I 3, 407b 13-26)? -- CHAPTER FIVE: ARISTOTLE'S NEW PSYCHOLOGY IN DE ANIMA II 1-2 -- CHAPTER SIX: THE SOUL IN ITS INSTRUMENTAL BODY LIKE THE SAILOR IN HIS SHIP (DE ANIMA II 1, 413A8-9) -- CHAPTER SEVEN: ARISTOTLE'S PROBLEMS WITH THE STANDARD PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES -- CHAPTER EIGHT: THE ROLE OF VITAL HEAT AND PNEUMA IN DE GENERATIONE ANIMALIUM -- CHAPTER NINE: 'FIRE ABOVE': THE RELATION OF SOUL TO THE BODY THAT RECEIVES SOUL, IN ARISTOTLE'S DE LONGITUDINE ET BREVTTATE VTTAE 2-3 -- CHAPTER TEN: PNEUMA AND THE THEORY OF SOUL IN DE MUNDO -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE ULTIMATE PROBLEM: HOW DID ARISTOTLE RELATE THE INTELLECT, WHICH IS NOT BOUND UP WITH SÔMA, TO THE SOUL, WHICH IS ALWAYS CONNECTED WITH SÔMA? -- CHAPTER TWELVE: ARISTOTLE'S LOST WORKS: THE CONSEQUENCES OF REINTERPRETING THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DE ANIMA -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE INFORMATION ON ARISTOTLE'S EUDEMUS -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: THE FIFTH ELEMENT AS THE SUBSTANCE OF THE SOUL -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE COMPARISON OF THE STEERSMAN AND HIS SHIP IN ARISTOTLE'S LOST WORKS AND ELSEWHERE -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE SOUL'S 'BONDAGE' ACCORDING TO A LOST WORK BY ARISTOTLE -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: THE INTEGRATION OF THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ARISTOTLE'S EUDEMUS ΑΝΌ HIS DE ANIMA -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: FINAL CONSIDERATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX NOMINUM -- INDEX LOCORUM.
Content:
For more than 1800 years it has been supposed that Aristotle viewed the soul as the entelechy of the visible body which is 'equipped with organs'. This book argues that in actual fact he saw the soul as the entelechy of a natural body 'that serves as its instrument'. This correction puts paid to W. Jaeger's hypothesis of a three-phase development in Aristotle. The author of this book defends the unity of Aristotle's philosophy of living nature in De anima, in the biological treatises, and in the lost dialogues. Aristotle should therefore be regarded as the author of the notion of the 'vehicle of the soul' and of a 'non-Platonic' dualism. The current understanding of his influence on Hellenistic philosophy needs to change accordingly
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-405) and indexes
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004130166
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Soul and its Instrumental Body: A Reinterpretation of Aristotle's Philosophy of Living Nature Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2003 ISBN 9789004130166
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004247635
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