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Philoponus: On Aristotle on the Soul 1.3-5 (Paperback, Nippod)
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Philoponus: On Aristotle on the Soul 1.3-5 (Paperback, Nippod)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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Until the launch of this series over fifteen 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. This text by Philoponus rejects accounts
of soul, or as we would say of mind, which define it as moving, as
cognitive, or in physical terms. Chapter 3 considers Aristotle's
attack on the idea that the soul is in motion. This was an attack
partly on his teacher, Plato, since Plato defines the soul as
self-moving. Philoponus agrees with Aristotle's attack on the idea
that a thing must be in motion in order to cause motion. But he
offers what may be Ammonius' interpretation of Plato's apparently
physicalistic account of the soul in the Timaeus as symbolic. What
we would call the mind-body relation is the subject of Chapter 4.
Plato and Aristotle attacked a physicalistic theory of soul, which
suggested it was the blend, ratio, or harmonious proportion of
ingredients in the body.Philoponus attacked the theory too, but we
learn from him that Epicurus had defended it. In Chapter 5,
Philoponus endorses Aristotle's rejection of the idea that the soul
is particles and of Empedocles' idea that the soul must be made of
all four elements in order to know what is made of the same
elements. He also rejects, with Aristotle, definitions of the soul
as moving or cognitive as ignoring lower forms of life. He finally
discusses Aristotle's rejection of Plato's localisation of parts of
the soul in parts of the body, but asks if new knowledge of the
brain and the nerves do not require some kind of localisation.
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