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Aristotle on the Common Sense (Paperback)
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Aristotle on the Common Sense (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Aristotle Studies Series
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Apart from using our eyes to see and our ears to hear, we regularly
and effortlessly perform a number of complex perceptual operations
that cannot be explained in terms of the five senses taken
individually. Such operations include, for example, perceiving that
the same object is white and sweet, noticing the difference between
white and sweet, or knowing that one's senses are active. Observing
that lower animals must be able to perform such operations, and
being unprepared to ascribe any share in rationality to them,
Aristotle explained such operations with reference to a
higher-order perceptual capacity which unites and monitors the five
senses. This capacity is known as the 'common sense' or sensus
communis. Unfortunately, Aristotle provides only scattered and
opaque references to this capacity. It is hardly surprising,
therefore, that the exact nature and functions of this capacity
have been a matter of perennial controversy.
Pavel Gregoric offers and extensive and compelling treatment of the
Aristotelian conception of the common sense, which has become part
and parcel of Western psychological theories from antiquity through
to the Middle Ages, and well into the early modern period.
Aristotle on the Common Sense begins with an introduction to
Aristotle's theory of perception and sets up a conceptual framework
for the interpretation of textual evidence. In addition to
analysing those passages which make explicit mention of the common
sense, and drawing out the implications for Aristotle's
terminology, Gregoric provides a detailed examination of each
function of this Aristotelian faculty.
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