On the Soul (Aristotle - Oxford Miller transl.)

Author: Aristotle

Translator: Fred D. Miller, Jr.

ISBN: 9780199588213

Binding: paperback

Section: Philosophy/Rhetoric/Logic

"...the more honourable animals have been allotted a more honourable soul..."

What is the nature of the soul? It is this question that Aristotle sought to answer in De Anima (On the Soul). In doing so he offers a psychological theory that encompasses not only human beings but all living beings. Its basic thesis, that the soul is the form of an organic body, sets it in sharp contrast with both Pre-Socratic physicalism and Platonic dualism. On the Soul contains Aristotle's definition of the soul, and his explanations of nutrition, perception, cognition, and animal self-motion.