『魂論』コメンタリー
Aristotle's De Anima: A Critical Commentary
- 作者: Ronald Polansky
- 出版社/メーカー: Cambridge University Press
- 発売日: 2010/07/05
- メディア: ペーパーバック
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某読書会用＆研究用。
580ページ。
2013/03/24追記
Jannone&Barbotinを底本として採用しており、著者自身もイントロダクションで述べている通りかなり保守的な読み方がなされています。
コメンタリーの内容は、アリストテレスや『魂論』のプロパーではなく、むしろ一般の読者を想定し、アリストテレスの議論を理解させることに主眼を置いている印象です。
私自身、まだそこまで深く『魂論』を研究しているわけではないのですが、はじめに触れるコメンタリーとしてかなりよいものだと思います。
目次
Introduction
1. The De Anima and self-knowledge
2. Study of soul in relation to physics
3. The cognitive faculties and physics
4. Aristotle's procedures and the quest for thoroughness
5. Background assumptions for study of the soul
6. The truth and interest of the De Anima
7. The text of the De Anima
Book 1:
1. The nobility and difficulty of study of soul. Its connection with body
2. The predecessors' use of soul to account for motion and perception
3. Criticism of predecessors' way of accounting for motion
4. Criticism of the harmonia view as an account of motion
5. Criticism of predecessors' way of accounting for cognition
Book 2:
1. Definition of soul
2. What is life?
3. How powers of soul are distributed and united in the soul
4. The nutritive faculty, its object and subfaculties
5. Clarification of being affected, living as saving, and the first definition of sense
6. The three sorts of sensible objects
7. Vision, its medium, and object
8. Hearing, sound, and voice
9. Smell and odor
10. Taste is a contact sense. The tasteable
11. Touch, the tangibles, and sense as a mean
12. Definition of sense and whether sensibles affect non-perceiving bodies
Book 3:
1. In the world as it is there can be but the five senses
2. What allows for perceiving that we perceive? Sense comes together in a common power so that the five senses are subfaculties of a central sense faculty
3. Distinguishing sense and thought. What is phantasia?
4. What is mind as that capable of thinking all things
5. What enables thinking to occur
6. The sorts of intelligible objects
7. Phantasia has a role in all thinking
8. The mind can think all things
9. There is a capacity for progressive motion
10. The desiderative capacity is the primary cause of progressive motion
11. Even the simplest animals have indefinite phantasia and calculative phantasia fits the account of progressive motion
12. The necessary order of the faculties of the soul
13. The sort of body requisite to support the order of the faculties of soul
Bibliography.
書評
Cass Weller
http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/23979-aristotle-s-de-anima/
Octavian Gabor
