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Simplicius': On Aristotle On the Soul 3.1-5 (Paperback, Nippod)
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Simplicius': On Aristotle On the Soul 3.1-5 (Paperback, Nippod)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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In "On the Soul 3.1-5," Aristotle goes beyond the five sense to the
general functions of sense perception, the imagination and the
so-called active intellect, the of which was still a matter of
controversy in the time of Thomas Aquinas. In his commentary on
Aristotle's text, 'Simplicius' insists that the intellect in
question is not something transcendental but the human rational
soul. He denies both Plotinus' view that a part of the soul has
never descended from uninterrupted contemplation of the Platonic
Forms, and Proclus' view that the soul cannot be changed in its
substance through embodiment. He also denies that imagination sees
things as true or false, which requires awareness of one's own
cognitions. He thinks that imagination works by projecting
imprints. In the case of mathematics, it can make the imprints more
like shapes taken on during sense perception or more like concepts,
which calls for lines without breadth. He acknowledges that
Aristotle would not agree to reify these concepts as substances,
but thinks of mathematical entities as mere abstractions.
Addressing the vexed question of authorship, H. J. Blumenthal
concludes that the commentary was written neither by Simplicius nor
Priscian. In a novel interpretation, he suggests that if Priscian
had any hand in this commentary, it might have been as editor of
notes from Simplicius' lectures.
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