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Philoponus: On Aristotle On the Soul 2.1-6 (Paperback, Nippod)
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Philoponus: On Aristotle On the Soul 2.1-6 (Paperback, Nippod)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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In On The Soul 2.1-6, Aristotle differs from Plato in his account
of the soul, by tying it to the body. The soul is the
life-manifesting capacities that we all have and that distinguish
living things, and explain their behaviour. He defines soul and
life by reference to the capacities for using food to maintain
structure and reproduce, for perceiving and desiring, and for
rational thought. Capacities have to be defined by reference to the
objects to which they are directed. The five senses, for example,
are defined by reference to their objects which are primarily forms
like colour. And in perception we are said to receive these forms
without matter. Philoponus understands this reception not
physiologically as the eye jelly's taking on colour patches, but
'cognitively', like Brentano, who much later thought that Aristotle
was treating the forms as intentional objects. Philoponus is the
patron of non-physiological interpretations, which are still a
matter of controversy today.
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