%0 Journal Article
%T Aristotle on Dividing the Soul
%A Pavel Gregoric
%J Prolegomena
%D 2008
%I Society for the Advancement of Philosophy, Zagreb
%X Aristotle¡¯s account of the soul requires an adequate division of the soul. However, Aristotle refuses to divide the soul spatially, and insists that it is divided only conceptually, that is ¡®in being¡¯ or ¡®in account¡¯. In this paper I explain what this division amounts to and how Aristotle executes it. Then I discuss three important advantages of such a division of the soul. First, it enables Aristotle to avoid problems that he identified in Plato¡¯s account of the soul. Second, it allows him to treat a particular capacity of the soul as itself divided into distinct parts or aspects. Third, it allows him to treat a particular capacity of the soul as a distinct part or aspect of some more comprehensive capacity.
%K Activity
%K biology
%K capacity
%K division
%K imagination
%K perception
%K Plato
%K psychology
%K sense.
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