On Sense and the Sensible

Name: On Sense and the Sensible
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Aristotle
ISBN: 9781787364523

Author: Aristotle

Narrator: Mia Goodrum

Unabridged: 1 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Interactive Media

Published: 08/03/2022

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Synopsis

On Sense and the Sensible by Aristotle is a philosophical text that discusses the nature of sensation and how it relates to knowledge. Aristotle argues that the senses are the foundation of all knowledge, and that the sensible world is the only true reality. He also contends that the intellect is not capable of grasping abstract concepts without the aid of the senses. Read in English, unabridged.

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 on November 07, 2018

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 on October 24, 2020

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 on December 31, 2019

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

Goodreads review by Brian on March 18, 2014

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