On Dreams

Name: On Dreams
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Aristotle
ISBN: 9781644080825

Author: Aristotle, Theodorus Gaza

Narrator: Ellie Darvill

Unabridged: 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Audio Sommelier

Published: 07/29/2018

Categories: Nonfiction, Body, Mind, & Spirit

Synopsis

“On Dreams” is part of Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia, a collection of works on the phenomena of human life. In this treatise, he hypothesizes that we dream because our sensory organs continue to function while we sleep. He compares dreams to hallucinations—errors in our sense perception. Aristotle’s view of dreams influenced philosopher Thomas Hobbes and psychologist Sigmund Freud, and it continues to fascinate readers today.

About Aristotle

Aristotle (384-322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, and a tutor to Alexander the Great. His writings, on such diverse subjects as rhetoric, logic, politics, ethics, biology, physics, and poetry, comprise some of the foundations of Western philosophy. He wrote as many as 200 treatises during his lifetime, of which only 31 survive. Of these, Aristotle's best-known works include Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Eudemian Ethics, Politics, and On the Soul.

Reviews

Goodreads review by persephone ☾ on April 09, 2023

"If a woman chances during her menstrual period to look into a highly polished mirror, the surface of it will grow cloudy with a blood-coloured haze." i want to smoke whatever Aristotle was smoking when he wrote this.......more

Goodreads review by Dave on April 29, 2020

Very good thoughts on dreams, from a time without any brain scanning equipment.......more

Goodreads review by Jairo on November 22, 2018

Pequeno texto em que Aristóteles tenta decifrar o que é o sonho e como ele é percebido. Faz um rodeio passando por menstruação e espelhos para dizer que a percepção sensorial é muito rápida. Erra em algumas observações do sonho, como suas elucubrações sobre relação do sono com transferência de calor,......more

Goodreads review by Andy on October 25, 2020

A quick read about ancient thought about dreams. Other said the dreams caused by phantom, but aristotle could logically said that dreams is some sort of "presentation". Well, according to that age, this is the most scientifically explanation.......more