Aristotle on Methodological Approaches to the Study of the Human Soul
Aristotle on Methodological Approaches to the Study of the Human Soul

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on Aristotle’s methodology of science and its application to the study of the human soul. My aim is to contrast two signifi - cantly different methodological approaches and to formulate two pairs of premises that Aristotle employs in two clearly differentiated and independent fi elds of study, namely in his zoological works and in the works of practical philosophy. Acknowledging these principles, as I suggest, may shed a new light on the methodological diffi culties that Aristotle indicates in the introductory chapters of his De anima.

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