De Anima by Aristotle

Author:Aristotle
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Published: 2010-10-21T20:00:00+00:00

Nor is consistency greatly helped when Aristotle announces at 405b11–12 that the fundamental features of the soul are not in fact two but three, the third, in addition to those of movement and perception, being that of ‘bodilessness’ (to asomaton). This term is suggestive and might prompt the supposition that Aristotle is about to consider views that are either not materially substantialist or not substantialist at all. This supposition, however, is disappointed, as asomaton turns out to mean little more than ‘particularly fine-grained’ for which Aristotle already has a word, leptomeres. In any case, at the end of the chapter he concentrates on the close connection between the thought that the soul is material and the thought that perception is of like by like, and, consistently, takes Anaxagoras to task for supposing the mind to be unaffected (apathes) and thus excluding the only explanation of its cognition that Aristotle here considers, its affection by its like in external objects. The concluding etymological remarks are a fair sample of Aristotle’s usually unhappy excursions into this science.

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