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Aristotle: De Anima / On the Soul

Peri psyches

textual humanities text book core Lifetime Path planned

Creators

  • Aristotle, author

Canon Rationale

A central Aristotelian work, included for soul as life-principle, perception, cognition, intellect, living bodies, and the long history of philosophy of mind.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 27.

Evidence

  • handbook: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 'Aristotle's Psychology'.
  • anthology: Internet Classics Archive, 'On the Soul by Aristotle', translated by J. A. Smith.

Audit Flags

translation dependency, version dependency

Completion unit: read the complete treatise in a specified translation or original Greek edition. Mark it complete when you can explain soul as form/life-principle, nutrition, perception, imagination, intellect, and the translation choices around psyche.

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