De Anima (On the Soul)

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Armand DAngour es profesor de Estudios Clásicos en Oxford y miembro del Jesus College de esta universidad. Autor de x{0026}lt;i Sócrates enamoradox{0026}lt;/i (Ariel) y x{0026}lt;i The Greeks and the Newx{0026}lt;/i , ha escrito sobre poesía, música y literatura grecolatina. Ha dictado numerosas conferencias sobre innovación en escuelas de negocios y, antes de ejercer como profesor, administró una empresa familiar. Vive en Londres.