THE SOUL, THE MIRACLE OF HUMAN HEALING - Ηψυχή, είναιτοθαυματουργόφάρμακο
THE SOUL, THE MIRACLE OF HUMAN HEALING - Ηψυχή, είναιτοθαυματουργόφάρμακο

Summary/Abstract: On the human separability approach, Greek Stagiritēs is taken to have identified reasons for thinking that the intellect can, in some way, exist on its own. On the naturalist approach, the soul, including intellectual soul, is inseparable from the body of which it is the form. I discuss how proponents of each approach deal with the key texts from the DA , focusing on four of the most important and interesting topics in this area. Two of these topics concern the activity of understanding noêsis [νόησις]: first, what does Aristotle mean when he claims that the intellect cannot have a bodily organ and, secondly, what role does Aristotle think phantasmata [φαντάσματα] <images> or <representations> play in understanding something?

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