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Aristotle's Clivus Naturae, John Thorp Jan 2016

Aristotle's Clivus Naturae, John Thorp

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It is usually thought that Aristotle's understanding of the soul sees it has having four distinct parts, cumulatively arranged, resulting in a kind of scala or ladder: all living things have the nutritive and reproductive soul; animals have, in addition, the sensitive soul, and most of them also the locomotive soul; only humans have all these plus the intellective soul. This ladder-like picture emerges from his theoretical work de Anima. In his more empirical studies, though, the discreteness of these levels is softened, and the image is more that of a clivus or slope, rather than a scala or ladder …


Notes On The Moral History Of Usury, John Thorp Jan 2015

Notes On The Moral History Of Usury, John Thorp

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Aristotle On Code, John Thorp Jan 2013

Aristotle On Code, John Thorp

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Aristotle, Females & Wind Eggs, John Thorp Jan 2007

Aristotle, Females & Wind Eggs, John Thorp

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Aristotle’S Worst Idea, John Thorp Jan 2006

Aristotle’S Worst Idea, John Thorp

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