Как душа движет тело: природа пневмы как инструментальной причины в учении Филопона о душе
How the soul moves the body: The nature of pneuma as an instrumental cause in Philoponus’ Commentary on Aristotle’s On the Soul

Summary/Abstract: In his commentary on Aristotle’s On the soul Philoponus claims that each part of the soul relates to its own underlying body as a form to matter. Philoponus insists, that the vegetative soul relates to a solid body, whereas the irrational soul relates to a pneumatic body. At the same time the irrational soul is the first mover for the solid body. In the paper, I consider the problem of the relationship between the irrational soul and an organic or solid body. Philoponus claims, that the irrational soul needs a pneumatic body to be the mover and entelecheia of a solid body. For this reason I describe how Philoponus understood the nature and function of pneuma and I reveal the role of pneuma as instrumental cause of bodily movement and therefore as a mediator between the irrational soul and the solid body.

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