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x,249pp. lar.8vo. with dj. sl.spotted. very good.

Tapa dura. Condition: New. 1ª edición. MODRAK, D. K. W.: ARISTOTLE. THE POWER OF PERCEPTION [HARDBACK] . CHICAGO, IL, 1987, x 249 p. , 560 gr. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo. (Q/A) 560 gr. Libro.

University of Chicago Press, Chicago / London, 1987. X,249p. Original beige cloth. Part of dust wrappers glued to inside front cover. 'The aim of this formidably thorough and learned monograph is to reconstruct Aristotle's theory of knowledge systematically from first principles, bringing 'state-of-the-art analytic tools' (p.18) to bear on the evidence of the 'De Anima' and 'Parva Naturalia'. The outcome is a unified Aristotelian account of the various cognitive operations of animal and human 'psychè' up to (though not including) the problematic 'active 'nous' of 'De An.' 3.5. This unified account exhibits sense-perception as the ground of a wide range of mental phenomena from memory and dreaming to self-consciousness and desire; and in view of the continuity which it postulates between perceptual and noetic activity, it also identifies the former as the purveyor of 'archai' or 'first principles' to any deductively organised science. (.) This book has the sterling virtue of being no longer than its content warrants. Partly because of its density, however, its appeal is likely to be limited to specialists.' (SABINA LOVIBOND in The Classical Review, 1988, pp.280-282).…