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Episode 131: Aristotle’s “De Anima”: What Is the Mind?

January 11, 2016 by Mark Linsenmayer 5 Comments

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Our second discussion of De Anima or On the Soul (350 BCE), this time on book 3.

What is the intellect? In ep. 130, we talked about Aristotle's idea of the soul as the form of the body and about two of its functions or parts: the nutritive and the sensitive. Here we talk more about how sensation is supposed to work according to Aristotle, and how the sense organs interact with each other. Aristotle doesn't think, like Kant, that the mind synthesizes data from the senses to create objects. Rather, that synthesis already happens just at the level of sense, that we perceive whole objects and not points in space. We talk about how this then relates to the faculty of imagination, and finally, the intellect (nous, in Greek).

This continues the discussion from ep. 130 and includes a preview of the Aftershow featuring Rebecca Goldner with Wes, host Danny Lobell, and PEL listeners. You can listen with your PEL Citizenship, or watch it on YouTube.

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  1. Episode 131: Aristotle’s “De Anima”: What Is the Mind? (Part Two) | The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast | A Philosophy Podcast and Blog says:
    January 18, 2016 at 7:00 am

    […] is a lot to absorb. We recommend that you go back and start with ep. 130, listen through all four hours of us jabbering here, and then sign up to attend the Aftershow on […]

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  2. Episode 147: Aristotle on Wisdom and Incontinence (Part Two) | The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast | A Philosophy Podcast and Blog says:
    September 26, 2016 at 7:00 am

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  3. Episode 153: Richard Rorty: There Is No Mind-Body Problem (Part Two) | The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast | A Philosophy Podcast and Blog says:
    December 12, 2016 at 1:59 pm

    […] ontological gap we have, and conceiving the mind as the faculty that apprehends universals (i.e. "nous" in Aristotle) was the first step into this mistaken (according to Rorty) picture of an inner realm that somehow […]

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