On Prophesying by Dreams

Name: On Prophesying by Dreams
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Aristotle
ISBN: 9781787364769

Author: Aristotle

Narrator: Mia Goodrum

Unabridged: 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Interactive Media

Published: 11/25/2022

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Synopsis

Aristotle's "On Prophesying by Dreams" is a philosophical work that discusses the nature of dreams and their interpretation. Aristotle believes that dreams are a way for the soul to communicate with the body, and that they can be interpreted to reveal hidden desires or truths. He also believes that some dreams are prophetic, and can foretell future events. Read in English, unabridged.

About Aristotle

Aristotle (384-322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, and a tutor to Alexander the Great. His writings, on such diverse subjects as rhetoric, logic, politics, ethics, biology, physics, and poetry, comprise some of the foundations of Western philosophy. He wrote as many as 200 treatises during his lifetime, of which only 31 survive. Of these, Aristotle's best-known works include Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Eudemian Ethics, Politics, and On the Soul.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Austin on July 18, 2012

It's an interesting part of Aristotle's search for the soul. I found it fascinating that Democritis apparently thought that dreams were phantasms that wandered through the earth and visited the weak minded at night. I note that, even back then, Aristotle and the other thinkers were trying to determi......more

Goodreads review by Elysa on January 14, 2021

Another short text from Aristotle. This one is whether or not dreams are prophetic and divine. In short, they are neither. Dreams are not prophetic, but rather coincidence as the dreamer doesn't really engage or participate in the dream (excluding lucid dreamers, I guess?). Dreams are merely halluci......more

Goodreads review by Jairo on November 24, 2018

Aristóteles inicia sua investigação dizendo que não há relação de causalidade entre um evento que acontece nos sonhos e o que ocorre no estreito de Gilbraltar, por exemplo. Começa bem falando que muitas supostas divinações são pura coincidência, contudo derrapa quando retoma a parte biológica do sono......more

Goodreads review by Andy on October 25, 2020

Here you go, aristotle daring to say that prophesy maybe is just a coincidence, and dreams not come from god. In that age, this statement obviously is a daring one.......more

Goodreads review by Aaron on March 24, 2023

Basically the beginnings of the scientific view of dreams......more