Publication

2000-11-01 - Cornell University Press

Language

English

Word Count

47,000 words, Guess

Page Count

188 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL7848315M
  • ISBN-139780801436871
  • ISBN-100801436877
  • OCLC Control Number43318927
  • Library of Congress Control Number99086075
and 2 more
  • LibraryThing924939
  • Goodreads406476

Classifications

  • LCCB415 .S452513 2000
  • LCCB415.S452513 2000

Description

"In On the Soul 3. 1-5, Aristotle goes beyond the five senses to the general functions of sense perception, the imagination and the so-called active intellect, the identity of which was still a matter of controversy in the time of Thomas Aquinas." "In his commentary on Aristotle's text, 'Simplicius' insists that the intellect in question is not something transcendental, but the human rational soul. He denies both Plotinus' view that a part of the soul has never descended from uninterrupted contemplation of the Platonic Forms, and Proclus' view that the soul cannot be changed in its substance through embodiment." "Addressing the vexed question of authorship, H.J. Blumenthal concludes that the commentary was written neither by Simplicius nor Priscian. In a novel interpretation, he suggests that if Priscian had any hand in this commentary, it might have been as editor of notes from Simplicius' lectures."--Jacket.

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