On Aristotle On sense perception Alexander of Aphrodisias ; translated by Alan Towey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alexander, of Aphrodisias, author.

Contributor:

Towey, Alan, editor.

Series:

Ancient commentators on Aristotle

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Perception (Philosophy).

Senses and sensation.

Alexander, of Aphrodisias.

Alexander.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 230 pages).

Place of Publication:

London Bloomsbury Academic 2013.

Summary:

"In his work On Sense Perception, Aristotle discusses the material conditions of perception, starting with the sense organs and moving to the material basis of colour, flavour and odour. His Pythagorean account of hues as a ratio of dark to light was enthusiastically endorsed by Goethe against Newton as being true to the painter's experience. Aristotle finishes with three problems about continuity. First, in what sense are indefinitely small colour patches or colour variations perceptible? Secondly, which perceptible leap discontinuously like light to fill a whole space, which have to reach one point before another; and do observers of the latter perceive the same thing if they are at different distances? Thirdly, how does the central sense permit genuinely simultaneous, rather than staggered, perception of different objects? Alexander's highly explanatory commentary is most expansive on these problems of continuity. His battery of objections to vision involving travel, which would lead to collisions and interference by winds, inspired a tradition of grading the five senses in respect of degrees of immateriality and of intentionality. He also introduces us to paradoxes of Diodorus Cronus about the relations of the smallest perceptible to the largest perceptible size."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Contents:

Editor's Note

Preface

Introduction

Textual Emendations

Translation

Notes

Bibliography

English-Greek Glossary

Greek-English Index

Subject Index

Notes:

First published in 2000 by Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd

Includes bibliographical references and index

Electronic reproduction. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement

ISBN:

9781472551597

OCLC:

1138653706