De anima / Aristotle ; edited, with introduction and commentary, by Sir David Ross

Aristotle

ISBN 10: 0198141556 / ISBN 13: 9780198141556

Published by Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999

About this Item

Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 338 pages ; 23 cm. Subjects: Aristotle. Ancient. Psychology. 1 Kg. Special edition for Sandpiper books Ltd.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: De anima / Aristotle ; edited, with introduction and commentary, by Sir David Ross
• Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: Greek, Modern (post 1453)
• ISBN 10: 0198141556
• ISBN 13: 9780198141556
• Binding: Hardcover

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Synopsis

For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to inhabit. Plato's student Aristotle was determined to test the truth of both these beliefs against the emerging sciences of logic and biology. His examination of the huge variety of living organisms the enormous range of their behaviour, their powers and their perceptual sophistication convinced him of the inadequacy both of a materialist reduction and of a Platonic sublimation of the soul. In De Anima, he sought to set out his theory of the soul as the ultimate reality of embodied form and produced both a masterpiece of philosophical insight and a psychology of perennially fascinating subtlety.

About the Author

Aristotle was born at Stageira, in the dominion of the kings of Macedonia, in 384 BC. For twenty years he studied at Athens in the Academy of Plato, on whose death in 347 he left, and, some time later, became tutor of the young Alexander the Great. When Alexander succeeded to the throne of Macedonia in 335, Aristotle returned to Athens and established his school and research institute, the Lyceum, to which his great erudition attracted a large number of scholars. After Alexander's death in 323, anti-Macedonian feeling drove Aristotle out of Athens, and he fled to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322. His writings, which were of extraordinary range, profoundly affected the whole course of ancient and medieval philosophy, and they are still eagerly studied and debated by philosophers today. Very many of them have survived and among the most famous are the Ethics and the Politics.