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De Anima by Aristotle Aristotle (1991, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPrometheus Books, Publishers
ISBN-100879756101
ISBN-139780879756109
eBay Product ID (ePID)545930
Product Key Features
Edition25
Book TitleDe Anima
Number of Pages103 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Aesthetics, Political
Publication Year1991
IllustratorYes
GenrePhilosophy
AuthorAristotle Aristotle
Book SeriesGreat Books in Philosophy Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight4.7 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN91-060431
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal128/.2
Edition DescriptionUnabridged edition
SynopsisLike many cultures then and now, the early Greeks pondered the nature of the soul. Originally conceived as a kind of ghost, surviving in a bloodless existence after the death of the body, the soul was defined by later philosophers - notably the Pythagoreans and Plato - as an immaterial divine being temporarily "imprisoned" in the body. True knowledge was gained not through the senses but from contemplation of external Ideas that were, like the soul itself, immaterial and immortal.A reformulation as well as a criticism of earlier thinkers, Aristotle's De Anima describes soul and body as complementaries rather than polar opposites, as they stand together in a mutual relation of matter and form. Each living entity, endowed with its own animating and informing principle, realizes its proper end. The human soul, incorporating all the animate properties of the lower life forms - the nutritive, propagative, locomotive, and perceptive - has also a fifth power, the intellective. The mind, to which the fifth and highest part is devoted, is alone capable of forming ideas of abstract concepts and relations. Hence, the human mind alone remains free from union with the corporeal., Like many cultures then and now, the early Greeks pondered the nature of the soul. Originally conceived as a kind of ghost, surviving in a bloodless existence after the death of the body, the soul was defined by later philosophers - notably the Pythagoreans and Plato - as an immaterial divine being temporarily "imprisoned" in the body. True knowledge was gained not through the senses but from contemplation of external Ideas that were, like the soul itself, immaterial and immortal. A reformulation as well as a criticism of earlier thinkers, Aristotle's De Anima describes soul and body as complementaries rather than polar opposites, as they stand together in a mutual relation of matter and form. Each living entity, endowed with its own animating and informing principle, realizes its proper end. The human soul, incorporating all the animate properties of the lower life forms - the nutritive, propagative, locomotive, and perceptive - has also a fifth power, the intellective. The mind, to which the fifth and highest part is devoted, is alone capable of forming ideas of abstract concepts and relations. Hence, the human mind alone remains free from union with the corporeal., A select group of young men and women take part in an experiment designed to free them of sexual inhibitions and fears by learning and living together at college.
LC Classification NumberPS3568.I4H3 1990
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