The Soul and Its Instrumental Body: A Reinterpretation of Aristotle's Philosophy of Living NatureFor more than 1800 years it has been supposed that Aristotle viewed the soul as the entelechy of the visible body which is 'equipped with organs'. This book argues that in actual fact he saw the soul as the entelechy of a natural body 'that serves as its instrument'. This correction puts paid to W. Jaeger's hypothesis of a three-phase development in Aristotle. The author of this book defends the unity of Aristotle's philosophy of living nature in De anima, in the biological treatises, and in the lost dialogues. Aristotle should therefore be regarded as the author of the notion of the 'vehicle of the soul' and of a 'non-Platonic' dualism. The current understanding of his influence on Hellenistic philosophy needs to change accordingly. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The modern debate on Aristotles psychology | 13 |
Pneuma as the organon of the soul in De motu | 31 |
What body is suitable for receiving the soul | 47 |
Aristotles new psychology in De anima II | 69 |
Natural bodies possessing life | 78 |
A natural body that is organikon | 85 |
De anima III 10 also presupposes an organon sômatikon | 94 |
Consequences | 179 |
Fire above the relation of the soul to the body | 183 |
Pneuma and the theory of soul in De mundo | 210 |
The ultimate problem how did Aristotle relate | 216 |
Aristotles lost works the consequences | 230 |
The information on Aristotles Eudemus | 238 |
The fifth element as the substance of | 258 |
The comparison of the steersman and his ship | 304 |
The substantial unity of the soul and its instrumental | 101 |
The nutritive soul is also connected with an instrumental | 109 |
A link with De anima I 3 | 116 |
The soul as the formal principle of the soulbody and | 122 |
The instrumental body as the rudder of the ship | 129 |
Aristotles problems with the standard psycho | 136 |
in two? | 145 |
The basis of the difference in soulvalue | 168 |
The souls bondage according to a lost work | 315 |
The integration of the psychology of Aristotles | 358 |
Final considerations and conclusions | 374 |
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