The Soul and Its Instrumental Body: A Reinterpretation of Aristotle's Philosophy of Living Nature

Abstract

Introduction 1. Aristotle's psychology reconsidered 2. The modern debate on Aristotle's psychology 3. Pneuma as the organon of the soul in De motu animalium 4. What body is suitable for receiving the soul (De anima I 3, 407b13-26)? 5. Aristotle's new psychology in De anima II 1-2 6. The soul in its instrumental body as the sailor in his ship (De anima II 1, 413a8-9) 7. Aristotle's problems with the standard psychological theories 8. The role of vital heat and pneuma in De generatione animalium 9. 'Fire above': the relation of the soul to the body that receives soul, in Aristotle's De longitudine et brevitate vitae 2-3 10. Pneuma and the theory of soul in De mundo 11. The ultimate problem: how did Aristotle relate the intellect, which is not bound up with soma, to the soul, which is always connected with soma? 12. Aristotle's lost works: the consequences of reinterpreting the psychology of De anima 13. The information on Aristotle's Eudemus 14. The fifth element as the substance of the soul 15. The comparison of the steersman and his ship in Aristotle's lost works and elsewhere 16. The soul's 'bondage' according to a lost work by Aristotle 17. The integration of the psychology of Aristotle's Eudemus and his De anima 18. Final considerations and conclusions Bibliography Index nominum Index locorum

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