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Full Idea
It would seem that the thinking part is, or most nearly is, the individual self.
Gist of Idea
It would seem that the thinking part is the individual self
Source
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1166a25)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.294
A Reaction
It seems that where Socrates identifies the self with the whole of the psuché (and hence is interested in its immortality, in 'Phaedo'), Aristotle considers the self to be merely the thinking and rational part of the psuché.
Related Idea
Idea 1650 For Socrates our soul, though hard to define, is our self [Vlastos on Socrates]
| 5266 | It would seem that the thinking part is the individual self [Aristotle] |
| 1401 | Since I only observe myself to be thinking, I conclude that that is my essence [Descartes] |
| 2299 | I can exist without imagination and sensing, but they can't exist without me [Descartes] |
| 6907 | For Descartes a person's essence is the mind because objects are perceived by mind, not senses [Descartes, by Feuerbach] |
| 5017 | In thinking we shut ourselves off from other substances, showing our identity and separateness [Descartes] |
| 6721 | Ideas are perceived by the mind, soul or self [Berkeley] |
| 1352 | Thoughts change continually, but the self doesn't [Reid] |
| 5549 | Mental representations would not be mine if they did not belong to a unified self-consciousness [Kant] |