Aristotle's De Anima: A Critical Commentary

Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Abbreviations......Page 17
1 The De anima and Self-Knowledge......Page 19
2 Study of Soul in Relation to Physics......Page 24
3 The Cognitive Faculties and Physics......Page 30
4 Aristotle\'s Procedures and the Quest for Thoroughness......Page 37
5 Background Assumptions for Study of the Soul......Page 42
6 The Truth and Interest of the De anima......Page 44
7 The Text of the De anima......Page 46
COMMENTARY ON DE ANIMA Book 1......Page 49
1\nThe Nobility and Difficulty of Study of Soul; Its\nConnection with Body......Page 51
2 The Predecessors\' Use of Soul to Account for Motion and Perception......Page 80
3 Criticism of Predecessors\' Way of Accounting for Motion......Page 101
4 Criticism of the Harmonia View as an Account of Motion......Page 121
5 Criticism of Predecessors\' Way of Accounting for Cognition......Page 141
Book 2......Page 161
1 Definition of Soul......Page 163
2 What Is Life?......Page 189
3\nHow Powers of Soul Are Distributed and\nUnited in the Soul......Page 206
4\nThe Nutritive Faculty:\nIts Object and Subfaculties......Page 218
5\nClarification of Being Affected, Living as Saving,\nand the First Definition of Sense......Page 241
6 The Three Sorts of Sensible Objects......Page 268
7 Vision, Medium, and Object......Page 281
8 Hearing, Sound, and Voice......Page 303
9 Smell and Odor......Page 320
10\nTaste Is a Contact Sense; the Tasteable......Page 331
11 Touch, the Tangibles, and Sense as a Mean......Page 339
12\nDefinition of Sense and Whether Sensibles Affect\nNonperceiving Bodies......Page 356
Book 3......Page 377
1\nIn the World As It Is There Can Be but the Five Senses......Page 379
2 What Allows for Perceiving That We Perceive; Sense Joins in a Common Power so That the Five Senses Are Subfaculties of a Central Sense Faculty......Page 398
3\nDistinguishing Sense and Thought; What Is Phantasia?......Page 421
4\nWhat Is Mind as That Capable of Thinking All Things......Page 452
5 What Enables Thinking to Occur......Page 476
6 The Sorts of Intelligible Objects......Page 491
7 Phantasia Has a Role in All Thinking......Page 499
8 That Mind Can Think All Things......Page 512
9\nThere Is a Capacity for Progressive Motion......Page 519
10\nThe Desiderative Capacity Is the Primary Cause\nof Progressive Motion......Page 532
11\nEven the Simplest Animals Have Indefinite Phantasia,\nand Calculative Phantasia Fits the Account\nof Progressive Motion......Page 545
12\nThe Necessary Order of the Faculties of Soul......Page 552
13\nThe Sort of Body Requisite to Support the Order\nof the Faculties of Soul......Page 564
Bibliography......Page 573
Index......Page 581