ESSAYS ON ARISTOTLES DE ANIMA – MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM-AMELIE OKSENBERG RORTY

Aristotle s philosophy of mind has recently attracted renewed attention and respect from philosophers. This volume brings together outstanding new essays on De Anima by a distinguished international group of contributors including, in this paperback efdition, a new essay by Myles Burnyeat. The essays form a running commentary on the work, covering such topics as the relation between body and soul, sense-perception, imagination, memory, desire, and thought. the authors, writing with philosophical subtlety and wide-ranging scholarship, present the philosophical substance of Aristotle s views to the modern reader. they locate their interpretations firmly within the context of Aristotle s thought as a whole.