The Physiology of Phantasmata in Aristotle: between Sensation and Digestion

被引:2
作者
Bubb, Claire [1 ]
机构
[1] NYU, Inst Study Ancient World, 15 E 84th St, New York, NY 10028 USA
来源
APEIRON-A JOURNAL FOR ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE | 2019年 / 52卷 / 03期
关键词
Aristotle; phantasia; sensation; digestion; dreams; SLEEP;
D O I
10.1515/apeiron-2018-0015
中图分类号
B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号
01 ; 0101 ;
摘要
In this article, I foreground the physiology of phantasia in Aristotle, which has been comparatively understudied. In the first section, I offer a new interpretation of the relationship between aisthemata (sense perceptions) and phantasmata, based on passages in the De Anima and the Parva Naturalia, and for a nuanced understanding of their respective substrates in the body, which I argue to be connate pneuma and blood. In the second section, I draw out the ramifications of this physiological presence of phantasmata in the blood and compare the integration of phantasmata into a person or animal's experiential history with the process of digestion. Both processes, I contend, require internalization of foreign elements as well as their optimal organization; more strikingly, both processes occur in the same substance, in the same location, and, perhaps, at the same time.
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页码:273 / 315
页数:43
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