[lit-ideas] Re: Negative Polarity
- From: Michael Chase <goya@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:09:13 -0700
Le 11 ao=FBt 04, =E0 06:55, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx a =E9crit :
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> I don't think it knocked Aristotle's socks ['sandals', corrects =
Geary],
> since he (Aristotle) wrote, "De generatione et corruptione", refuting=20=
> Plato's idea
> of the soul as immortal.
M.C. Again, this must be true only of the Argentine edition of De Gen.=20=
et corr. Not only was the version I'm familiar with *not* written to=20
"refute Plato's doctrine of the soul as immortal", but as far as I=20
know, Plato's doctrine of the soul is not even mentioned in the work,=20
nor does the word "immortal" or "immortality" (*athanatos*/*athanasia*)=20=
ever occur in it.
Aristotle's conception of the immortality or otherwise of the =
soul is=20
far from clear, but the work it's discussed in is the De anima, not the=20=
De gen. et corr.
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Michael Chase
(goya@xxxxxxxxxxx)
CNRS UPR 76
7, rue Guy Moquet
Villejuif 94801
France
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