On Sense and the Sensible, Aristotle
On Sense and the Sensible, Aristotle
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On Sense and the Sensible

Author: Aristotle

Narrator: Suzi Woods

Unabridged: 1 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/27/2018

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Synopsis

This Aristotelian treatise makes up part of the philosopher’s Parva Naturalia, which is Latin for “short treatises on nature.” In this text, he presents his ideas about the human senses. He connects each sense to an element—sight to water, touch to earth, etc. While Aristotle’s view of the senses is scientifically inaccurate in many ways, this treatise is a fascinating read for anyone interested in learning more about how the ancients understood the world.  

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 Jairo

Aristotle starts by analysing some animals attributes, saying that they can be summed up on pairs, like youth and old, life and death. Seems a bit arbitrary to me. He recalls that senses come from the soul through the body, treated on "de anima". Some better considerations are made about what the eye......more

Goodreads review by Andy

This is a rather short book about sense. We could learn many things here, including the ingredients to make perfume on that age. Sometimes, learning classics not only for the philosophy within, but also we could learn about that age......more

Goodreads review by Zay Min

O my Aristotle 3.5 out of 5......more

Goodreads review by Brian

Sense and Sensible by Aristotle translated into English by J. I. Beareis a short treatise on the senses. The work of course has many inaccuracies as can be expected from an Aristotilean view of the senses. The work starts by explaining how the individual senses connect to the objects they detect by......more

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