Aristotle's Concept of Mind

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Aristotle's Concept of Mind

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Zusammenfassung

This book challenges flawed readings of Aristotle's psychology, offering the first book-length treatment in English of his thinking about mind. Scholars of ancient Greek philosophy, and particularly of Aristotelian psychology, will find this original interpretation highly valuable. It will also appeal to historians of later philosophy and to modern philosophers of mind.

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Aristotle's Concept of Mind by Erick Jimnez

In this book, Erick Raphael Jimenez examines Aristotle's concept of mind (nous), a key concept in Aristotelian psychology, metaphysics, and epistemology. Drawing on a close analysis of De Anima, Jimenez argues that mind is neither disembodied nor innate, as has commonly been held, but an embodied ability that emerges from learning and discovery. Looking to Aristotle's metaphysics and epistemology, Jimenez argues that just as Aristotelian mind is not innate, intelligibility is not an innate feature of the objects of Aristotelian mind, but an outcome of certain mental constructions that make those objects intelligible. Conversely, it is through these same mental constructions that thinkers become intelligent, or come to possess minds. Connecting this account to Aristotle's metaphysics and epistemology, Jimenez shows how this concept of mind fits within Aristotle's wider philosophy. His bold interpretation will interest a wide range of readers in ancient and later philosophy.

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'… specialists on Aristotle's psychology … will find much in his account that is novel and provocativeAnd given his systematic approach, such readers will benefit from seeing links between different aspects of Aristotle's philosophy - links that Jiménez's interpretation brings to the fore and that deserve more examination than I have been able to give them here. Jiménez's work should spur on further thought about these difficult issues.' Matthew D. Walker, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Erick Raphael Jiménez is Lecturer in Philosophy at California State University, Northridge.
SKU Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13 9781107194182
ISBN 10 1107194180
Titel Aristotle's Concept of Mind
Autor Erick Jimnez
Buchzustand Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart Hardback
Verlag Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2017-07-06
Seitenanzahl 274
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