By Corcilius, Klaus
How do animals make themselves circulation? not like newest theories, Aristotle solutions this query via a basic conception of animal move legitimate for either people and animals. This ebook translates this idea and analyses its primary strategies.
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Nicht ausschließlich, die Seele selbst, sondern die Eigenschaften und Leistungen beseelter Körper. Es sind Erklärungen von seelischen Prozessen wie sie sich in der Natur in beseelten Körpern ereignen. Sie involvieren mehr als nur die definitorischen Eigenschaften der Seele. Es sind keine Aussagen über der Seele selbst. 6 _____________ 5 6 Vermutlich auch methodologisch: Der Weg zur Definition der Prinzipien sollte nicht entlang derselben Schritte verlaufen wie der Weg von den Prinzipien zur Erklärung der Phänomene, auch nicht in umgekehrter Beweisrichtung.
Nämlich anlässlich der Diskussion der Ansichten seiner Vorgänger. Aristoteles scheint nämlich die Vermengung genau dieser beiden Aspekte für die hauptsächliche Quelle der fehlerhaften Bestimmungen der Seele durch seine Vorgänger zu halten: T 2 Zu Anfang der Untersuchung nehmen wir uns vor, was ihr hauptsächlich von Natur aus zuzukommen scheint: Das Beseelte scheint sich vom Unbeseelten also hauptsächlich durch zweierlei zu unterscheiden, durch Bewegung und durch das Wahrnehmen. Aber von den älteren (Philosophen) sind im Wesentlichen diese beiden Positionen bezüglich der Seele auf uns gekommen.
Denn die Aktivitäten sind der Erklärung nach früher als die Vermögen. Wenn dies aber so ist, die Gegenstände jedoch für noch früher angesehen werden müssen, so _____________ 23 DA 415a12-16: ὅτι μὲν οὖν ὁ περὶ τούτων ἑκάστου λόγος, οὗτος οἰκειότατος καὶ περὶ ψυχῆς, δῆλον. Ἀναγκαῖον δὲ τὸν μέλλοντα περὶ τούτων σκέψιν ποιεῖσθαι λαβεῖν ἕκαστον αὐτῶν τί ἐστιν, εἶθ᾿ οὕτως περὶ τῶν ἐχομένων καὶ περὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἐπιζητεῖν. Vgl. auch schon vorher in DA 414b32f. 24 So auch Hicks, 304, zu DA II 1 generell: „It is important, however, to remember that we are more concerned in this chapter to determine how much we include under the term soul, than to establish a given theory of the soul“.