Aristotle’S Doctrine of the Instrumental Body of the Soul

Philosophia Reformata 64 (1):37-51 (1999)
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Hippolytus of Rome on Aristotle’s definition of the soul. His work Concerning the Soul is obscure. For in the entire three books [where he treats of his subject] it is not possible to say clearly what is Aristotle’s opinion concerning the soul. For, as regards the definition which he furnishes of soul, it is easy [enough] to declare this; but what it is that is signified by the definition is difficult to discover. For soul, he says, is an entelecheia of a sôma physikon organikon; [but to explain] what this is at all, would require a very great number of arguments, and a lengthened investigation.

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Sur l'évolution d'Aristote en psychologie.Charles Lefèvre - 1972 - Louvain,: Éditions de l'Institut supérieur de philosophie (de l'Université catholique de Louvain).

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