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Single Idea 1735

[from 'De Anima' by Aristotle, in 15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 6. Anti-Individualism ]

Full Idea

The soul is in a way all the things that exist, for all the things that exist are objects either of perception or of thought.

Gist of Idea

In a way the soul is everything which exists, through its perceptions and thoughts

Source

Aristotle (De Anima [c.329 BCE], 431b22)

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'De Anima (On the Soul)', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,H.C. [Penguin 1986], p.210


A Reaction

Sounds very like Berkeley's empirical version of idealism. It also seems to imply modern externalist (anti-individualist) understandings of the mind (which strike me as false).