When life imitates art. Vital locomotion and Aristotle's craft analogy

Jorge Mittelmann; Patricio A. Fernandez

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When life imitates art. Vital locomotion and Aristotle's craft analogy

Jorge Mittelmann, Patricio A. Fernandez

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Fernandez and Mittelmann focus on Aristotle’s analogy between the soul as an efficient cause and a craft. They argue that the acts of a craft are a special kind of vital act of a rational soul and that the continuous unifying activity of the source of motion in those cases, which must be constantly and not episodically at work in and throughout each of its acts, is not an idiosyncratic feature of the rational case, but the rational version of a form of efficient causality that is at work in all those vital phenomena of which the soul is said to be the efficient cause.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Heat, Pneuma and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science
Editors	Colin Guthrie King, Hynek Bartos
Place of Publication	Cambridge
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Chapter	12
Pages	260-287
Number of pages	27
ISBN (Print)	9781108651714
DOIs	https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1017/9781108651714
State	Published - 29 Feb 2020

Keywords

Locomotive soul
craft analogy
soul powers

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Heat, Pneuma and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science. ed. / Colin Guthrie King; Hynek Bartos. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. p. 260-287 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108651714.015.

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