Affiliation:
1. Department of Philosophy, Metropolitan State University of DenverDenver co, 80204USA
Abstract
I offer a new interpretation of the passages where Aristotle maintains that intellectual activity employs φαντάσµατα (images). In theoretical understanding of mathematical and natural beings, we usually need to consciously employ appropriate φαντάσµατα in order to grasp explanatory connections. Aristotle does not, however, commit himself to thinking that images are required for exercising all theoretical understanding: understanding immaterial things, in particular, may not involve φαντάσµατα. Thus the connection that Aristotle makes between images and understanding does not rule out the possibility that human intellectual activity could occur apart from the body.
Subject
History and Philosophy of Science,Philosophy,History
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2. ‘Plato on Why Mathematics is Good for the Soul’;Burnyeat,2000
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