O problema do pensamento no de anima de Aristóteles

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Fernanda Pereira Augusto da
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Filosofia; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: De Anima.; Sensopercepção; Pensamento.; De Anima; Sense perception; Thinking; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::FILOSOFIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/9582

The problem of the line of thought in De Anima concerns the way the human being is capable of acknowledging nature in act in view of the intellectual/thinking faculty triggered by stimuli resulting from the activity of the sense perception faculty. The investigation is aimed initially towards indispensable concepts of Aristotle’s cognitive theory. Among them, how substance is understood (form, matter and the composite of both), the definition of soul and animate being. Such notions, along with those of actuality and potentiality, are indispensable for understanding the relationship between body and soul, integrating hylomorphism. The treatment of the faculties of the soul begins with an examination of the nutritive faculty and its relationship with what is identified as life, followed by an approach towards the sense perception faculty, in which the activity consists in the reception in act of the external object’s form without matter. As a result of such activity, the one who perceives becomes in act equal to the form of that which is perceived. Besides performing an investigation pertaining to the senses, the notion of meta-perception is also approached. An analysis of the imagination as a movement that derives from the act of sense perception and that is fundamental to enable thinking is developed. Finally, to research the intellectual/thinking faculty, sense perception faculty is contrastively taken as a paradigm to attribute qualities to the faculty related to thinking. This faculty presents two functions: patient/passive intellect and active/productive intellect. From the balance of sense perception elaborated by imaginative operation, thinking, through its activity, recognizes its object: universal/ intelligible form. The result of thinking is designated as science. And the human being can only achieve such result through primarily apprehending sensitive forms related to subjects.