On the Soul

Name: On the Soul
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Aristotle
ISBN: 9781787366602

Author: Aristotle

Narrator: George Easton

Unabridged: 2 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Interactive Media

Published: 04/16/2023

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Synopsis

"On the Soul" is a philosophical treatise written by Aristotle in the 4th century BC. The book is focused on the nature of the soul and its relationship to the body, as well as the various faculties of the soul such as perception, thought, and desire. The majority of the book is devoted to the discussion of the various faculties of the soul. Aristotle examines perception, memory, imagination, and thought in detail, and argues that these faculties are interconnected and form a hierarchy of cognitive processes. He also discusses the role of desire in human behavior, and how it relates to the other faculties of the soul. 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 Jonathan

"... it is, in every respect and every way, one of the most difficult things to reach any conviction concerning the soul." So starts Aristotle in De Anima, one of the first attempts to scientifically investigate psychological phenomena. We should be wary that even the "master of those who know" is ge......more

Goodreads review by Isa

For those who think they will find something profound in this book...they will not. I'm not sure if it's Aristotle's fault or the fault of the translator, but some sentences are just incomprehensible. I'm sure it was useful 2,200 years ago but for this day and age I didn't really benefit from this.......more

Goodreads review by Renato

Very interesting but very difficult to follow.......more