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Single Idea 24039
[filed under theme 17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 2. Interactionism
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Full Idea
The affections of the soul - spiritedness, fear, pity, confidence, joy, loving, hating - would all seem to involve the body, since at the same time as these the body is affected in a certain way.
Gist of Idea
All the emotions seem to involve the body, simultaneously with the feeling
Source
Aristotle (De Anima [c.329 BCE], 403a16)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'De Anima (on the psuche)', ed/tr. Reeve, C.D.C. [Hackett 2017], p.4
A Reaction
Aristotle was not a physicalist, but this resembles the pilot-in-the-ship passage in Descartes, accepting the very close links.
Related Ideas
Idea 3616
The soul must unite with the body to have appetites and sensations [Descartes]
Idea 23981
Rage is inconceivable without bodily responses; so there are no disembodied emotions [James]
The
54 ideas
from 'De Anima'
17711
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Our minds take on the form of what is being perceived
[Aristotle, by Mares]
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5507
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Aristotle led to the view that there are several souls, all somewhat physical
[Aristotle, by Martin/Barresi]
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2683
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Aristotle has a problem fitting his separate reason into the soul, which is said to be the form of the body
[Ackrill on Aristotle]
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16646
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To understand a triangle summing to two right angles, we need to know the essence of a line
[Aristotle]
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16647
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Demonstration starts from a definition of essence, so we can derive (or conjecture about) the properties
[Aristotle]
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1710
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Emotion involves the body, thinking uses the mind, imagination hovers between them
[Aristotle]
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24039
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All the emotions seem to involve the body, simultaneously with the feeling
[Aristotle]
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24040
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Scientists explain anger by the matter, dialecticians by the form and the account
[Aristotle]
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1714
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Mind involves movement, perception, incorporeality
[Aristotle]
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24044
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Movement can be intrinsic (like a ship) or relative (like its sailors)
[Aristotle]
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24045
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Movement is spatial, alteration, withering or growth
[Aristotle]
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24046
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Understanding is impossible, if it involves the understanding having parts
[Aristotle]
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24047
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An account is either a definition or a demonstration
[Aristotle]
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24048
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Demonstrations move from starting-points to deduced conclusions
[Aristotle]
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24049
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Thinkers place the soul within the body, but never explain how they are attached
[Aristotle]
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1514
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Early thinkers concentrate on the soul but ignore the body, as if it didn't matter what body received the soul
[Aristotle]
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1717
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If the soul is composed of many physical parts, it can't be a true unity
[Aristotle]
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24050
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If soul is separate from body, why does it die when the body dies?
[Aristotle]
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1718
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Does the mind think or pity, or does the whole man do these things?
[Aristotle]
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24051
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Soul is seen as what moves, or what is least physical, or a combination of elements
[Aristotle]
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24052
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From one thing alone we can infer its contrary
[Aristotle]
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24053
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If a soul have parts, what unites them?
[Aristotle]
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1721
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What unifies the soul would have to be a super-soul, which seems absurd
[Aristotle]
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24055
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Matter is potential, form is actual
[Aristotle]
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12086
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Psuché is the form and actuality of a body which potentially has life
[Aristotle]
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13275
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The soul and the body are inseparable, like the imprint in some wax
[Aristotle]
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16752
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Sight is the essence of the eye, fitting its definition; the eye itself is just the matter
[Aristotle]
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24056
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The soul (or parts of it) is not separable from the body
[Aristotle]
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1724
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Perception necessitates pleasure and pain, which necessitates appetite
[Aristotle]
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24057
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What is prior is always potentially present in what is next in order
[Aristotle]
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16754
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The soul is the cause or source of movement, the essence of body, and its end
[Aristotle]
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24058
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The substance is the cause of a thing's being
[Aristotle]
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1725
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Why can't we sense the senses? And why do senses need stimuli?
[Aristotle]
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1726
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We may think when we wish, but not perceive, because universals are within the mind
[Aristotle]
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1727
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Some objects of sensation are unique to one sense, where deception is impossible
[Aristotle]
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1728
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Many objects of sensation are common to all the senses
[Aristotle]
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1729
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We perceive number by the denial of continuity
[Aristotle]
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1730
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Why do we have many senses, and not just one?
[Aristotle]
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1732
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Sense organs aren't the end of sensation, or they would know what does the sensing
[Aristotle]
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1733
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Thinking is not perceiving, but takes the form of imagination and speculation
[Aristotle]
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23307
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Aristotle makes belief a part of reason, but sees desires as separate
[Aristotle, by Sorabji]
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16723
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Perception of sensible objects is virtually never wrong
[Aristotle]
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5051
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The intellect has potential to think, like a tablet on which nothing has yet been written
[Aristotle]
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4376
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Pleasure and pain are perceptions of things as good or bad
[Aristotle]
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1734
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In moral thought images are essential, to be pursued or avoided
[Aristotle]
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1735
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In a way the soul is everything which exists, through its perceptions and thoughts
[Aristotle]
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24060
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Self-controlled follow understanding, when it is opposed to desires
[Aristotle]
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1738
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Practical reason is based on desire, so desire must be the ultimate producer of movement
[Aristotle]
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24061
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If we divide the mind up according to its capacities, there are a lot of them
[Aristotle]
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1739
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If all movement is either pushing or pulling, there must be a still point in between where it all starts
[Aristotle]
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24062
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Self-moving animals must have desires, and that entails having imagination
[Aristotle]
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24063
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What is born has growth, a prime, and a withering away
[Aristotle]
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1740
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Nature does nothing in vain
[Aristotle]
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24064
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If something is pushed, it pushes back
[Aristotle]
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