Syllabus
* 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.
Annotation
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