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De Anima (Paperback, Special 25th Anniversary Ed)
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De Anima (Paperback, Special 25th Anniversary Ed)
Series: Great Books in Philosophy
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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.
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