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Aristotle
On the Soul and
On Memory and Recollection
Translated by Joe Sachs
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What does it mean to be a natural living thing? Are plants and animals alive simply because of an arrangement of material parts, or does life spring from something else? In this timeless and profound inquiry, Aristotle presents a view of the psyche that avoids the simplifications both of the materialists and those who believe in the soul as something quite distinct from body. On the Soul also includes Aristotle's idiosyncratic and influential account of light and colors. On Memory and Recollection continues the investigation of some of the topics introduced in On the Soul.
Sachs's fresh and jargon-free approach to the translation of Aristotle, his lively and insightful introduction, and his notes and glossaries, all bring out the continuing relevance of Aristotle's thought to biological and philosophical questions.
"The structure of this world, not some other that we may imagine or invent, but this one that we experience, must accommodate the structure of the natural and that means, pre-eminently, the living. ...
"What is that structure? Aristotle traces it down many roads. In the Platonic dialogues, Socrates is always asking the question ti esti?, what is it?, about any single look that makes many perceptible things all be the same one thing. It is possible to treat this as a logical question, having to do with classifying the world, attaching universal names to particular things. But we can sort the world into any classes we please. Aristotle is interested in the way the world sorts itself out, and this is visible in anything that keeps on being the same while constantly undergoing change. And what if that enduring sameness is of a kind that could not even be present except in the course of change? In that case, the thing does not hold out passively against change, but absorbs change into itself, molds it into a new kind of identity, a second level of sameness, a higher order of being. For such a being, to be at all depends on its keeping on being what it is. Aristotle sums up this way of being in his phrase to ti ên einai...."
--Richard F. Hassing, School of Philosophy, Catholic University
On the Soul and On Memory and Recollection
224 pages
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