Abstract

The present dissertation is about Aristotle and his account of sound and hearing. It is divided in three sections: the study of the sound, the medium and the sense organ. It faces the problems of sense perception in the debate between Spiritualist and Literalist, taking a position closer to the literalist view but with difference in the explanation of sound. It is defended the Aristotelian position that puts him in between the reductionist physicalism and the position of Plato or Descartes who split the union of the hylomorphic structure of nature. Sound and hearing are thus showed as a combination of material and formal elements represented in physiological features of hearing and at the same time the formal structure of sense perception.