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Aristotle’s De anima

Předmět na Fakulta humanitních studií |
YBAJ028

Sylabus

* Mandatory :

POLANSKY, R. Aristotle’s De Anima, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

SCHIELDS, CH. Aristotle: De Anima, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2016.

* Recommended :

GREGORIC P. Aristotle on Common Sense. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

NUSSBAUM, M. and RORTY, A. (eds.) Essays on Aristotle’s De Anima. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

LENNOX, J. Aristotle’s Philosophy of Biology: Studies in the Origins of Life Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Anotace

A reading seminar on Aristotle’s On the Soul (De anima), the first systematic philosophical account of soul and one of the most important and influential texts of Aristotle. Sessions:

1. DA I,1 – Introduction

2. DA II,1 (412a-413a) – The soul as the first actuality of the body

3. DA II,2 (413a-414a): The soul and its capacities

4. DA II,3-4 (414b-416b): The fundamental capacities of life

5. DA II,5-6 (417a-418b): The capacity of sensation

6. DA II,7-12 (418b-424b): Outline of the different senses

7. DA III,1-2 (424b-427a): Common sensible

8. DA III,3 (427a-429a): Imagination

9. DA III,4-6 (429a-430b): Thinking and nous, truth and falsity

10. DA III,7-8 (431a-b): Thought and imagination

11. DA III,9-10 (431b-433b) How is movement possible?

12. DA III,10-11 (433b-434a): Movement, appetite, and desire

13. DA III,12-13 (434a-435b): The soul and life