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On Aristotle on the Soul 2.7-12 (Hardcover)
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On Aristotle on the Soul 2.7-12 (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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Until the launch of this series over ten years ago, the 15,000
volumes of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle, written
mainly between 200 and 600 AD, constituted the largest corpus of
extant Greek philosophical writings not translated into English or
other European languages. Over 30 volumes have now appeared in the
series, which is planned in some 60 volumes altogether. In this,
one of the most original ancient texts on sense perception,
Philoponus, the sixth century AD commentator on Aristotle,
considers how far perceptual processes are incorporeal. Colour
affects us in the same way as light which, passing through a
stained glass window, affects the air, but colours only the masonry
beyond. Sounds and smells are somewhat more physical, travelling
most of the way to us with a moving block of air, but not quite all
the way. Only the organ of touch takes on the tangible qualities
perceived, because reception of sensible qualities in perception is
cognitive, not physical. Neither light nor the action of colour
involves the travel of bodies. Our capacities for psychological
activity do not follow, nor result from, the chemistry of our
bodies, but merely supervene on that. On the other hand, Philoponus
shows knowledge of the sensory nerves, and he believes that thought
and anger both warm us. This is used elsewhere to show how we can
tell someone else's state of mind.
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