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Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle On Sense Perception A. Towey

Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle On Sense Perception By A. Towey

Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle On Sense Perception by A. Towey


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The 15,000 pages of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle, written mainly between 200 and 600 AD, constitute the largest corpus of extant Greek philosophical writings. This series of translations with introductions, notes and indexes fills an important gap in the history of European thought.

Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle On Sense Perception Summary

Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle On Sense Perception by A. Towey

In his work On Sense Perception, Aristotle discusses the material conditions of perception, starting with the sense organs and moving to the material basis of colour, flavour and odour. His Pythagorean account of hues as a ratio of dark to light was enthusiastically endorsed by Goethe against Newton as being true to the painter's experience. Aristotle finishes with three problems about continuity. First, in what sense are indefinitely small colour patches or colour variations perceptible? Secondly, which perceptible leap discontinuously like light to fill a whole space, which have to reach one point before another; and do observers of the latter perceive the same thing if they are at different distances? Thirdly, how does the central sense permit genuinely simultaneous, rather than staggered, perception of different objects? Alexander's highly explanatory commentary is most expansive on these problems of continuity. His battery of objections to vision involving travel, which would lead to collisions and interference by winds, inspired a tradition of grading the five senses in respect of degrees of immateriality and of intentionality. He also introduces us to paradoxes of Diodorus Cronus about the relations of the smallest perceptible to the largest perceptible size.

About A. Towey

Alan Towey holds a PhD in Philosophy from King's College London, UK.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note Preface Introduction Textual Emendations Translation Notes Bibliography English-Greek Glossary Greek-English Index Subject Index

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NLS9781780938851
9781780938851
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Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle On Sense Perception by A. Towey
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2014-04-10
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