Apart from using our eyes to see and our ears to hear, we regularly and effortlessly perform a number of complex perceptual operations that cannot be explained in terms of the five senses taken individually. Such operations include, for example, perceiving that the same object is white and sweet, noticing the difference between white and sweet, or knowing that one's senses are active. Observing that lower animals must be able to perform such operations, and being unprepared to ascribe any share in rationality to them, Aristotle explained such operations with reference to a higher-order perceptual capacity which unites and monitors the five senses. This capacity is known as the 'common sense' or "sensus communis". Unfortunately, Aristotle provides only scattered and opaque references to this capacity. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that the exact nature and functions of this capacity have been a matter of perennial controversy.Pavel Gregoric offers an extensive and compelling treatment of the Aristotelian conception of the common sense, which has become part and parcel of Western psychological theories from antiquity through to the Middle Ages, and well into the early modern period. Aristotle on the Common Sense begins with an introduction to Aristotle's theory of perception and sets up a conceptual framework for the interpretation of textual evidence. In addition to analysing those passages which make explicit mention of the common sense, and drawing out the implications for Aristotle>'s terminology, Gregoric provides a detailed examination of each function of this Aristotelian faculty.
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Oxford
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Oxford University
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2007
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
xiv, 252 p.: ill.; 23 cm
فروست
ساير اطلاعات عنواني
Oxford Aristotle studies
يادداشت کلی
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references )p. ]224[-239( and indexes
متن يادداشت
ISBN: 9780199277377
یادداشتهای مربوط به عنوان و پدیدآور
متن يادداشت
Pavel Gregoric
یادداشت های مربوط به نسخه اصلی
متن يادداشت
1
متن يادداشت
2
یادداشتهای مربوط به مندرجات
متن يادداشت
I. The framework -- 1. Aristotle's project and methods -- 2. The perceptual capacity of the soul -- 3. The sensory apparatus -- 4. The common sense and the related capacities -- II. The terminology -- 1. Overlooked occurrences of the phrase 'common sense'. 2, De anima III.1 524a72. 3, De partibus animalium IV.01 686a13. 4, De memoria et reminiscentia 1 054a01. 5, De anima III.7 134b5. 6, Conclusions on the terminology -- III. Functions of the common sense. 1, Simultaneous perception and cross-modal binding. 2, Perceptual discrimination. 3, Waking, sleep, and control of the senses -- 4. Perceiving that what we see and hear, and monitoring of the senses -- 5. Other roles of the common sense -- Conclusion
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
عنصر شناسه ای
، Aristotle
عنصر شناسه ای
، Senses and sensation -- Early works to 0081
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
B
485
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G593
A75
2007
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