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On Aristotle "On the Soul 3.1-5" (Hardcover)
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On Aristotle "On the Soul 3.1-5" (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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In "On the Soul" 3.1-5, Aristotle goes beyond the five senses to
the general functions of sense perception, the imagination and the
so-called active intellect, whose identity 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 our soul has never
descended from uninterrupted contemplation of the Platonic forms,
and Proclus' view that our soul cannot be changed in its substance
through embodiment. Continuing the debate in Carlos Steel's earlier
volume in this series, Henry Blumenthal assesses the authorship of
the commentary. He concludes against it being by Simplicius, but
not for its being by Priscian. In a novel interpretation, he
suggests that if Priscian had any hand in it at all, it might have
been as editor of notes from Simplicius' lectures.
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