c. Sophia and Philosophia (in Aristotle) (2022) (original) (raw)

This is what exists as my attempt to revise Appendix 2 of my dissertation. It was titled "Philosophy," but covered sophia and theōria too. In order to stop this subject from siphoning off undue mental energy, I will upload the actual chapter from the submitted dissertation (rather than my modification of it over the next few years, and this recent attempt to reconsider everything. But for someone who would like a credible account of this subject by a philosopher who is thoroughly familiar with the complete corpus, see Action, Contemplation, and Happiness by C. D. C. Reeve (Harvard University Press,. The book is about action, contemplation and happiness according to Aristotle. And the "contemplation" in the title covers philosophy, sophia, and thēoria. You can buy it as a Kindle, as a print book, or download a not-quite-final version of it from here (it is not actually in Portuguese) https://www.academia.edu/9925629/Action\_Contemplation\_and\_Happiness\_An\_Essay\_on\_Aristotle\_Cam bridge_Mass_Harvard_University_Press_2012_Pp_300_xiv_Portuguese_edition_Edições_Loyola_Brazil_ 2014 Much of what Reeve says there can be found in the introductions to his Hackett translations of Aristotle and elsewhere. Looking over what I have may prepare your mind for his more challenging account. 1 Notice that in the Appendix 2 to this appendix ("'Philosophy' and 'Wisdom'" in the Aristotle Corpus," I have material that would be helpful for people wanting to do their own research on this subject. Nous "seems to have awareness (enoian) of what is fine (kalôn) and divine (theiôn). (NE X.7.1177a13-1) (NE X.7.1177a15) Nous has the "greatest (kratistē) objects of knowledge (gnosta)" (NE X.7.1177a22) Nous here is the potentiality that is developed and perfected as sophia. It is consistent with what is said in NE VI.7 to say that sophia is aware of what is fine and divine and that it knows the greatest things, it has the greatest knowable, object of knowledge. There is one question about the use of the word kalon. We would tend to translate that as what is noble. Does the notion of nobility belong to the realm of phronēsis and not sophia? It is possible, but kalon has a number of senses, one of which is beautiful. And perhaps Aristotle is quite willing to speak about God and the heavens as noble or something similar. 10 And the human active intellect (An III.4-8)-if it is taken to be distinct from God. 11 ka‹ går ényr≈pou êlla polÁ yeiÒtera tØn fÊsin, oÂon faner≈tatã ge §j oen ı kÒsmow sun°sthken. (1141a34-b2). The Metaphysics speaks of the stars as "the divinities obvious to us" (VI.1.1026a17). See