Aristotle’s De anima - YBAJ028

• Title: Aristotle’s De anima
• Guaranteed by: Programme Liberal Arts and Humanities (24-SHVAJ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2019
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HS]
• Extent per academic year: 26 [hours]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (30)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Hynek Bartoš, Ph.D.

Annotation

English

Last update: Mgr. Vratislav Kozák, Ph.D. (02.05.2018)

A reading seminar on Aristotle’s On the Soul (De anima), the first systematic philosophical account of soul and one of the most important and influential texts of Aristotle. Sessions: 1. DA I,1 – Introduction 2. DA II,1 (412a-413a) – The soul as the first actuality of the body 3. DA II,2 (413a-414a): The soul and its capacities 4. DA II,3-4 (414b-416b): The fundamental capacities of life 5. DA II,5-6 (417a-418b): The capacity of sensation 6. DA II,7-12 (418b-424b): Outline of the different senses 7. DA III,1-2 (424b-427a): Common sensible 8. DA III,3 (427a-429a): Imagination 9. DA III,4-6 (429a-430b): Thinking and nous, truth and falsity 10. DA III,7-8 (431a-b): Thought and imagination 11. DA III,9-10 (431b-433b) How is movement possible? 12. DA III,10-11 (433b-434a): Movement, appetite, and desire 13. DA III,12-13 (434a-435b): The soul and life

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Vratislav Kozák, Ph.D. (02.05.2018)

Mandatory :

POLANSKY, R. Aristotle’s De Anima, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

SCHIELDS, CH. Aristotle: De Anima, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2016.

Recommended :

GREGORIC P. Aristotle on Common Sense. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

NUSSBAUM, M. and RORTY, A. (eds.) Essays on Aristotle’s De Anima. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

LENNOX, J. Aristotle’s Philosophy of Biology: Studies in the Origins of Life Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.