Eugene Gendlin, Aristotle's De Anima, University of Chicago 1991 (original) (raw)

Short review Christopher Shields. Aristotle. De anima.

Short Review of Aristotle. De Anima. Translated, with an Introduction and Commentary by Christopher Shields. Clarendon Aristotle Series. Series editor, Lindsay Judson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. lii + 416. Cloth, £60.00. in the Journal of the History of Philosophy 55.1, 155f.

ARISTOTLE’S DE ANIMA IN ROMANIAN HISTORIES OF PSYCHOLOGY. TIMISOARA SCHOOL.

This analysis is part of a longer term projected study concerning non-philosophical discourses on history of philosophy in Romanian public texts, especially within Academia. Methodological insights have been discussed within the special one-semester long lectures at Timişoara West University with the Master students in Philosophical Hermeneutics and Religion and will be published shortly in a dedicated book. This selected material is part of that forthcoming book but also an independent critical analysis intended to show limitations and risks of non-professional discourse on philosophical issues separated from their rational and historiographical context. We discuss Aristotelian thinking within histories of psychology and analyze textbooks and public lectures within West University of Timişoara as a structured scientific context of discourse relevant to our approach.

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Ancient Greek Psychology and the Modern Mind-Body Debate, 2018

This book offers an overview of Platonic-Aristotelian thought on man with a view to considering what its alternative conceptual framework may contribute to the modern debate which is dominated by the skepticism confronting modern reductionism. The mind-body problem is central to the modern philosophical and cultural debate because we cannot understand what man is until we understand what consciousness is and how it interacts with the body. Although many suggestions have been offered, no convincing account has as yet appeared. Perhaps it was all mistaken ideology from the start? A crucial (and fatal?) distinction was made by modern natural science in the 17th century between the subjective/qualitative and the objective/quantitative. The ancient Greeks, notably Plato and Aristotle, focused not on consciousness and experience, but on goal-directed reason/form, and the contrast was not mechanical matter, but the particular. The latter owed its intelligibility and being to reason and form and did not, therefore, constitute a realm of its own. Hence the ancient picture of man did not fall apart either: the soul is conceived of as a dynamic-telic aspect of the human organism. Considering the problems and consequent skepticism that confronts modern reductionism and the recent appearance of holistic ideology in many areas it is suggested that we take a fresh look at the alternative conceptual framework of our ancient Greek ancestors.

Review of Aristotle, De Anima: Translation, Introduction, and Notes, C.D.C. Reeve

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2018

This is an excellent translation of Aristotle's De Anima or On the Soul, part of C.D.C. Reeve's impressive ongoing project of translating Aristotle's works for the New Hackett Aristotle. Reeve's translation is careful and accurate, committed to faithfully rendering Aristotle into English while making him as readable as possible. This edition features excellent notes that will greatly assist readers (especially in their inclusion of related passages that illuminate the sections they annotate) and an introduction that situates the work within Aristotle's scientific method and his overall view of reality.