Aristotelous Peri Psychēs: Aristotle on the Vital Principle

abstractions admit alluded analogous Anaxagoras Animalm animals appear appetite argument Aristotle Aristotle's assumed Auscult belong brain cause ciple colour combination constituted contrary creatures Cuvier Democritus derived diaphanous distinction distinguished doctrine earth elements Empedocles entities essence existence fact faculty fire flesh fluid functions genus hearing homogeneous imagination imparted implies impressionable individual indivisible innate inquiry judge kind knowledge larynx Leucippus living body locomotion maintain manifest matter medium Metaphys mind mode motor moved nature Note nourished nutrition object obscure observes odour opinion passage peculiar perceive percussion periphrasis Phædo pharynx physiology plants Plato potentiality PRELUDE TO CHAPTER primal properties purport qualities reality recognise reflexion regarded relation sapid savour seems self-motive sensation sense sensibility sentient impressions sentient organs sentient perception shew shewn sight signifies smell sonorous sound supposed syllogism tangible impressions taste term things thinking thought Timæus tion Touch trachea treatise visible vision Vital Principle writers Xenocrates