How the Soul Uses Its Tools: Flexible Agency in Aristotle’s Account of Animal Generation
Aristotle claims that just as a builder uses ‘tools’ to build a house, so too the soul ‘use[s] heat and coldness as tools’ to build an animal (Generation of Animals 740b25–34). I consider two questions about this claim: (1) what sorts of things does the soul use, and what is it for things like them...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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Phronesis
Year: 2023, Volume: 68, Issue: 3, Pages: 293-325 |
| Further subjects: | B
animal generation
B Causation B Tools B Biology B Aristotle |
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