Format:
VIII, 230 S.
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
0-8014-3690-7
Series Statement:
Ancient commentators on Aristotle
Uniform Title:
In Aristotelis De sensu
Content:
"In his work On Sense Perception, Aristotle discusses the material conditions of perception, starting with the sense organs and moving to the material basis of color, flavor, and odor. His Pythagorean account of hues as a ratio of dark to light was enthusiastically endorsed by Goethe against Newton as being true to the painter's experience. Aristotle finishes with three problems about continuity. In what sense are indefinitely small color patches or color variations perceptible? Which perceptibles leap discontinuously like light to fill a whole space, which have to reach one point before another; and do observers of the latter perceive the same thing if they are at different distances? How does the central sense permit genuinely simultaneous, rather than staggered, perception of different objects?"--BOOK JACKET.
Note:
UK-Ausg. im Verl. Duckworth u.d.T.: On Aristotle On sense perception
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
,
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
v384-v322 De sensu et sensibilibus Aristoteles
;
Aphrodisiensis De intellectu Alexander
;
Kommentar
;
Aphrodisiensis Quaestiones Alexander
;
Kommentar
;
Kommentar
Author information:
Alexander Aphrodisiensis
