http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/ Slow Readings of Aristotle's De Anima Sat, 03 Jun 2006 09:31:26 GMT Lancelot R. Fletcher http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/60 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/60 My plato-timaeus list has been quiet for some time, but a few subscribers have recently indicated a desire to launch a slow reading of this dialogue. If you Sun, 31 Jul 2005 04:53:41 GMT Brad Williams http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/59 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/59 Chapter 12 Aristotle makes some broad points in this chapter: Every living thing has a nutritive soul. Everything that travels has a perceptual soul. Every Sun, 17 Jul 2005 03:28:38 GMT Brad Williams http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/58 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/58 Quotes are from Lawson-Tancred. Chapter 10 Aristotle concludes from the preceding chapter that both desire and "the intellect which reasons for a purpose" are Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:45:45 GMT Brad Williams http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/57 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/57 Quotes are from Lawson-Tancred. Chapter 9 Aristotle begins this discussion of motivation by stating a more general puzzle about the number and the Fri, 27 May 2005 19:01:45 GMT Brad Williams http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/56 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/56 Chapter 7 Lawson-Tancred says this chapter has a fragmentary quality to it, having no consistent line of argument. Aristotle covers: a special kind of Thu, 05 May 2005 16:34:06 GMT Brad Williams http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/55 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/55 Quotes are from Lawson-Tancred. Chapter 5 This abbreviated chapter mentions an active factor of mind which "makes", whereas the intellect already discussed Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:08:13 GMT Jeremy and Eve McNeil http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/54 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/54 This is a very important chapter - in it, Aristotle argues to the immateriality of the soul. Regarding 429b10-21, I believe Aristotle is describing the object Thu, 14 Apr 2005 04:48:35 GMT Brad Williams http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/53 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/53 Quotes are from Lawson-Tancred except as noted. Chapter 4 Turning to that part of the soul which has both cognition and understanding, Aristotle states it must Fri, 25 Mar 2005 06:46:12 GMT Brad Williams http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/52 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/52 This chapter discusses imagination. Aristotle begins by stating that thinking and understanding are like perceiving, in that by both does the soul apprehend Tue, 22 Mar 2005 04:10:54 GMT Brad Williams http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/51 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/51 Quotes are from Lawson-Tancred except as noted. Book 3, Chapter 1 Aristotle begins with an explanation of why, given the number and types of elements and their Wed, 02 Mar 2005 04:14:38 GMT Brad Williams http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/50 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/50 Chapter 11 Aristotle begins this discussion of the faculty of touch by raising these issues: (a) is touch a single sense or many? (b) what is the sense-organ Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:58:49 GMT Brad Williams http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/49 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/49 Chapter 9 Aristotle notes that the sense of smell is far less accurate in man than in some animals, whereas man excels at sight and especially at touch. (In a Mon, 07 Feb 2005 07:06:10 GMT Brad Williams http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/48 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/48 The gist of Aristotle's straightforward account of sound can be found in a line at 420a: "That which sounds is that which produces motion in such air as is Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:09:59 GMT Brad Williams http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/47 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/47 Aristotle begins his analysis of sight by stating that the object of sight is the visible, which is color and also something for which there is no single name Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:40:30 GMT Brad Williams http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/46 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aristotle-soul/message/46 In this short chapter, Aristotle identifies three different kinds of sense-object: special, general, and the incidental. The special and general are