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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Preface
References
Introduction
1. Scope and Nature of Aristotle’s Psychological Works
2. Life of Aristotle
3. Aristotle’s Philosophical Framework
4. Methods and Problems of Aristotle’s Psychology
5. Examination of Predecessors’ Theories
6. Definition of the Soul
7. Nutrition and Reproduction
8. Sense-perception
9. Imagination and Appearance
10. Thought
11. Self-movement
12. Teleological Explanation of the Psychic Faculties
13. The Role of the Bodily Organs
14. Transmission and Reception of Aristotle’s Writings
15. Aristotle and Modern Philosophical Psychology
Note on The Translation
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Outline of Aristotle’s Psychological Works
On The Soul (De Anima)
On Perception and Perceptible Objects (De Sensu Et Sensibilibus)
On Memory and Recollection (De Memoria Et Reminiscentia)
On Sleep and Waking (De Somno Et Vigilia)
On Dreams (De Insomniis)
On Prophecy Through Sleep (De Divinatione Per Somnum)
On Length and Shortness Of Life (De Longitudine Et Brevitate Vitae)
On Youth and Old Age, Life And Death, And Respiration (De Juventute Et Senectute, De Vita Et Morte, De Respiratione)
Selected Testimony And Fragments
A Chronology of Aristotle
On The Soul (De Anima)
Book I. Introduction to Psychology
1. Subject matter, method, and problems of psychology
2. The soul as source of movement and perception
3. Critique of theories that the soul is moved in place
4. Critique of theories that the soul is a harmony
5. Critique of the theory that the soul is a self-moving number (continued)
Book II. Definition of The Soul
1. Common account of the soul
2. The capacities of the soul
3. The most specific account of the soul
4. Nutrition, growth, and reproduction
5. Introduction: important distinctions concerning perception
6. Three kinds of perceptible objects
7. Survey of the special senses: sight and its object
8. Hearing and its object
9. Smell and its object
10. Taste and its object
11. Touch and its object
12. Perception as the capacity to receive perceptible forms without the matter
Book III. Perception (Continued)
1. Why there are no more than the five senses
2. How we perceive that we perceive
3. Thought distinguished from perception and imagination
4. Thought is simple, unaffected, and unmixed with the body
5. Two aspects of thought: productive and affective
6. Simple and complex objects of thought
7. Thought in relation to its objects
8. Dependence of thought on sense-perception and imagination
9. What capacity of the soul enables animals to move themselves?
10. The source of self-motion: thought or desire?
11. The role of imagination and belief in animal motion
12. Why animals must possess sense-perception
13. Why animals possess touch and the other senses
Parva Naturalia
On Perception and Perceptible Objects
1. General introduction: phenomena common to soul and body
2. Composition of the sense-organs, in particular the eye
3. Colour
4. Flavour
5. Smell
6. Problems about perceptible objects: are they infinitely divisible?
7. Can we perceive more than one object at the same time?
On Memory and Recollection
1. Definition and explanation of memory
2. Definition and explanation of recollection
On Sleep and Waking
1. General introduction: problems involving sleep
2. The explanation of sleep
3. The bodily processes involved in sleep and waking
On Dreams
1. To what faculty of the soul does dreaming belong?
2. What causes dreams to occur?
3. The bodily processes involved in dreaming
On Prophecy Through Sleep
1. Do prophetic dreams have any credibility?
2. Explanation of dreams about the future
On Length and Shortness of Life
1. Why do different animals and plants have different life spans?
2. The causes of death in general
3. Is there anywhere a destructible thing could become indestructible?
4. Which animals and plants have longer lives?
5. The cause of long life and short life
6. Why do some plants live longer than animals?
On Youth and Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration
1. The basis in the body for the nutritive and perceptive soul
2. The central location of the nutritive and perceptive organ
3. Comparison of the middle part of plants with the heart of animals
4. Why the heart (or analogous organ) has a central location
5. Why the vital heat needs to be regulated
6. The regulation of heating and cooling in plants and animals
7 (1). Earlier theories of respiration
8 (2). Critique of Anaxagoras and Diogenes on respiration
9 (3). Critique of Anaxagoras and Diogenes on respiration (continued)
10 (4). Critique of Democritus on respiration
11 (5). Critique of Plato on respiration
12 (6). Respiration is not for the sake of nutrition
13 (7). Critique of Empedocles on respiration
14 (8). Why animals generally require refrigeration
15 (9). Different ways animals accomplish refrigeration
16 (10). Comparison of the lung and gills
17 (11). The dual function of the mouth
18 (12). Why some aquatic animals take in water even though they have lungs
19 (13). Explanation of refrigeration
20 (14). Critique of Empedocles’ theory of the origin of aquatic animals
21 (15). Why animals differ in their capacity for respiration
22 (16). Relation of the heart to the lung and gills
23 (17; 1). The cause of death
24 (18; 2). Overview of the life cycle and types of death
25 (19; 3). Death by suffocation
26 (20; 4). Three events involving the heart: palpitation and pulsation
27 (21; 5). Three events involving the heart (continued): respiration
Selected Testimony and Fragments
1. Passages related to the Eudemus
2. Passages related to On Philosophy
3. Other passages related to psychology
Hymn to Hermias
Explanatory Notes
On the Soul
Book II
Book III
Parva Naturalia
Selected Testimony And Fragments
Hymn to Hermias
Textual Notes
On the Soul
On Perception and Perceptible Objects
On Memory and Recollection
On Sleep and Waking
On Dreams
On Prophecy Through Sleep
On Length and Shortness of Life
On Youth and Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration
Selected Testimony and Fragments
Glossary of Key Terms
Index
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