Mind and World in Aristotle's De Anima
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- Author: Sean Kelsey, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
- Date Published: December 2021
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108832915
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Why is the human mind able to perceive and understand the truth about reality; that is, why does it seem to be the mind's specific function to know the world? Sean Kelsey argues that both the question itself and the way Aristotle answers it are key to understanding his work De Anima, a systematic philosophical account of the soul and its powers. In this original reading of a familiar but highly compressed text, Kelsey shows how this question underpins Aristotle's inquiry into the nature of soul, sensibility, and intelligence. He argues that, for Aristotle, the reason why it is in human nature to know beings is that 'the soul in a way is all beings'. This new perspective on the De Anima throws fresh and interesting light on familiar Aristotelian doctrines: for example, that sensibility is a kind of ratio (logos), or that the intellect is simple, separate, and unmixed.
Read more- A new reading of Aristotle's key text with one central question in mind
- Throws new light on a familiar but difficult work
- Suggests continuities easily missed in more narrowly focused studies
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'Sean Kelsey asks important questions about Aristotle's views on the fit between the mind or soul and the world. How are humans knowers and perceivers? How is the world knowable and perceivable? The proposed answers shed new light on the De Anima and on the methods Aristotle uses to pursue these questions.' James Warren, University of Cambridge
See more reviews'Nearly all of Aristotle is hard. But the ideas and texts at the heart of this book are some of the hard hards. I learned much reading it. This book is a worthy addition to the growing literature on Aristotle's De Anima.' Evan Keeling, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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- Date Published: December 2021
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108832915
- length: 240 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.435kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Questions:
1. Objectives
2. Problems
3. Solutions
Part II. Angles:
4. Affinities
5. Measures
Part III. Proposals:
6. Sensibility
7. Intelligibility
8. Intelligence
Conclusion.
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