This work's second book notes that the title concept is unlike an axe that, being made dull and useless, is still nonetheless an axe, but an unseeing eye is only an eye in the same sense as a glass eye is.
This work's second book notes that the title concept is unlike an axe that, being made dull and useless, is still nonetheless an axe, but an unseeing eye is only an eye in the same sense as a glass eye is. This text posits that the "nutritive" variety of the title concept is "the most primitive and widely distributed," and Part 2 of its first book contains a listing of various theories of the title concept developed by the author's predecessors. The third book of this text posits "possible" and "agent" intellects, (*) and many of the topics addressed in this work are also covered in the same author's Parva Naturalia.. This text asserts that the body is the material of a living creature, but the title entity is its form, an example of its author's framework of hylomorphism. The fifth chapter of its third book contains a proof of the immortality of only the agent intellect, marking a break with the Phaedo. For 10 points, name this treatise on the "vital principle" by Aristotle.
This work's second book notes that the title concept is unlike an axe that, being made dull and useless, is still nonetheless an axe, but an unseeing eye is only an eye in the same sense as a glass eye is.
De Anima [or On the Soul; or Peri Psuches]