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de Anima (on the Soul)

by Aristotle

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Aristotle’s inquiry into soul, life, and perception

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Aristotle’s inquiry into soul, life, and perception

De Anima places Aristotle’s account of the soul in conversation with earlier Greek thought while grounding the question in observation of living things. The work examines movement, sensation, behavior, and perception across a wide range of organisms, testing whether the soul can be understood as merely material or as wholly separate from the body. Aristotle instead develops a view of soul in relation to embodied form, making the treatise a foundational text for questions that now span philosophy of mind, biology, and psychology. This edition presents a classical investigation whose central concerns remain legible in debates about what distinguishes living beings and how perception operates.

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  • Students and general readers of ancient Greek philosophy
  • Readers interested in the history of psychology and theories of mind
  • Those exploring Aristotle’s thought on living organisms and perception

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Soul and bodyPerceptionMovement and lifeEmbodied formAncient philosophy

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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.

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