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Commentary on the De Anima

Book 1 — Opinions about the Soul

Prologue — Opinions about the Soul Lecture 1 — The dignity, utility, order, and difficulty of this science Lecture 2 — Questions of method Lecture 3 — Democritus, the Pythagoreans, and Anaxagoras Lecture 4 — Empedocles, Plato, and soul as self-moving number Lecture 5 — Soul as identified with the elements Lecture 6 — Soul as a self-moving substance Lecture 7 — Democritus and Plato on the soul as a mover of the body Lecture 8 — A critique of Plato on the soul as a spatial magnitude Lecture 9 — Theory of soul as harmony Lecture 10 — Theory of soul as a self-mover reconsidered Lecture 11 — Soul as a self-moving number Lecture 12 — Empedocles’s theory of cognition and why soul is not composed of the elements Lecture 13 — The elements have no soul Lecture 14 — The unity of the soul

Commentary on the De Anima
Book 1 — Opinions about the Soul

Prologue — Opinions about the Soul

(No English translation of this section is available; see the Latin column.)

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