General Index

Robert Roreitner

doi:10.1017/9781009533829.013

General Index

Ackrill, J. L., 67

actio per distans, 110

activity (ἐνέργεια), 3, 5–7, 13–14, 17, 34, 37, 45, 58, 65, 76, 85, 105–106, 108–109, 112, 132, 184, 189, 194, 206, 208, 210–212, 215, 230, 232–233

and acquisition, 91–94

complete passive, 11–19, 22–23, 28, 33, 38, 62–63, 65, 72–99, 101, 107, 198, 220, 223, 226–229

as opposite of passivity, 11–15, 27, 146–150

passive non-altering, 87–91

acts, perceptual primary, 6, 11, 21, 171, 209, 227–228

acquaintance and contact requirement of, 17, 43, 68, 95, 172

unbiasedness and externality requirement of, 17, 43, 69, 95, 172–173

Aelius Herodianus, 14

affection, perceptual, 1, 17, 19, 25, 53, 62–63, 84, 87, 107, 115, 119, 121–122, 125–127, 135, 146, 148, 150, 171, 210, 214–215, 219–221, 223

Alcmaeon, 170

Alexander of Aphrodisias, 14, 20, 24, 29, 31, 45, 73, 81, 87, 114, 128–129, 138, 145–147, 150–152, 154, 156–157, 163, 172, 185, 188, 232

alteration, kinds of, 26, 31, 83–87, 89, 91, 93, 119, 140, 146, 160–161, 189, 203

quasi-alteration, 123, 160

Anagnostopoulos, Andreas, 36, 63, 76–78, 85, 90–91

analogy, 19, 23–24, 59, 66, 73–75, 118, 124, 126–127, 180, 204–205, 216–219, 221, 225–226, 228

Anaxagoras, 8, 17, 26, 40, 43, 50–53, 68–71, 75, 81, 83, 96, 130, 148, 170–171, 173, 188

animals, 4–6, 9, 42, 79, 95, 129, 132–134, 136, 143, 149–150, 153, 162–163, 184, 198, 203, 205–207, 209–210, 223, 227, 233

antinomies, 63, 79, 91

Apollonius Dyscolus, 14

Aquinas, Thomas, 30, 157, 160

Aristonicus, 14

art, analogy of, 12, 23, 47, 76, 138, 163, 190, 204–205, 210–211

artisans, 23, 47, 76–78, 118, 197, 199, 204, 209–210

assimilation model see perception (αἴσθησις)

asymmetries, 2, 56, 59

Auriol, Peter, 3

Averroes, 156, 158–160

Averroists, 20, 157

blind spots, perceptual, 22, 35–36, 101, 124, 126, 177, 180, 191, 194

body, non-cognitive operation of, 23, 203–211

body, role in perception of, 16, 19, 28, 98, 100, 119–128, 131, 133, 148, 151, 156, 179

Bolton, Robert, 40

Bonitz, Hermann, 75, 165–166, 168

Broad Church Reading, 123, 125

Burnyeat, Myles, 16, 26–27, 31, 34–36, 39, 54, 57, 63, 88, 115, 126, 131, 172, 217

New Age Spiritualism of, 122–123

Canonical Literalism, 124

carpentry, 76, 132, 190, 204, 211

Carter, Jason, 39, 43, 54, 143, 156

Caston, Victor, 3, 100, 114, 118, 122–125, 127, 220–222

change (κίνησις), 5, 9, 12, 15, 17, 19, 26–27, 29, 33–34, 38, 45, 52, 61–63, 65–66, 75–77, 84–85, 87, 89–91, 94, 97, 99, 107–108, 115, 120–121, 123–127, 131, 135–137, 139, 141–146, 150–151, 153, 155, 161, 167, 180, 186, 189, 198–200, 203–205, 212, 218, 220, 223

as an incomplete activity, 33–34, 63, 65, 76, 78, 90

mere Cambridge, 188

phenomenal, 120, 125–126

physiological, 22, 97, 115, 119, 122–127, 131, 216

spiritual, 98

change blindness, 166

Charles, David, 126, 132, 149

CKC (contrary is known by contrary), 51, 53, 68, 170–171

Clidemus, 171

cognition, 8, 10, 15, 23, 133, 158, 171–172, 208–209, 211

colour, 6, 46, 59, 65, 97, 101–109, 111–113, 115–118, 123–124, 144, 159, 166–168, 171, 176, 186–187, 192, 195–197, 199, 201, 206, 213, 221–222, 225

completeness see perception (αἴσθησις), completeness of

subject and telic structure criteria of, 77, 90–91

consciousness, 205, 209, 211

Corcilius, Klaus, 99, 106, 144, 162–163, 184, 192

Critias, 50

Democritus, 9, 17, 46–48, 50–51, 54, 57, 60, 65, 98, 100, 112, 138, 153, 170, 175

destructive πάσχειν, 32, 79, 81–82, 85–86, 91, 93–94, 96–97, 126, 206–207

dialectic, 39–42, 54, 138

Diogenes of Apollonia, 50, 112, 170

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 14

Dionysius Thrax, 14

disanalogies, 59, 74–75, 83

discrimination (κρίνειν), perceptual, 2, 19–23, 85, 103, 110, 128–129, 146, 148–149, 151, 163–164, 166, 169, 174, 177, 179, 184–186, 189, 193, 196, 198, 200–203, 208–211, 215, 220, 222–223

holistic, 22, 193

of the imperceptible, 175–177, 193, 206–207

judicial sense of (sensus iudicialis), 21, 165–175, 177

logic of, 165–167

and role of the perceptual soul, 127–133

single mean and, 192–197

within the assimilation model, 177–182

distinctions, 33, 36–37, 39, 65, 70, 72–76, 79, 87–88, 91, 109

distinguishing features (διαφοραί), 20, 55, 58, 70, 87, 104, 130, 177, 194–195, 199

Dreistufenlehre (triple scheme), 75

Ebert, Theodor, 102, 128, 165–169, 175, 184

effluences, 54–56, 171

embryogenesis, 94

Empedocles, 50–51, 53–54, 56–57, 70, 112, 138, 170, 172

ensoulment, 55, 132, 135, 138, 158, 160, 185, 189, 224

exegesis, 28, 30, 148, 150–151, 211

explanantia, explananda and, 4–5, 7–9, 18, 149, 228

forms without the matter see perception (αἴσθησις), as reception of forms without the matter

fulfilment (ἐντελεχεία), 18, 21, 29–30, 45, 57–59, 63, 74, 80–82, 92–93, 96, 108, 111, 116, 178, 181, 183, 223–226

first and second, 31, 75–79, 83, 87, 89, 101, 109, 135

functionalism, 7, 131

Galen, 14

Gasser-Wingate, Marc, 103

genus and species, 44–50, 52, 84, 86, 98, 196

Giles of Rome, 157

Grasso, Roberto, 179, 184, 202

Gregoric, Pavel, 102, 162

Hamlyn, D. W., 179

hand, as ‘instrument of instruments’, 224–226

health, 47, 50, 173

hearing, 66, 72, 102, 105–106, 110–113, 118, 176, 178, 193, 200–201, 208, 232–233

heart, the, 110, 119, 140, 162, 184–185, 187, 201

Heinaman, Robert, 84, 88

Hellenistic authors, 13, 147

Heraclitus, 50–51

homeostasis, 21–23, 185, 187–189, 191, 198, 205, 208–209, 215, 229

in non-tangible sense modalities, 200–203

Homer, 14

homuncularism, 8

housebuilding, analogy of, 27, 29, 31–32, 65, 76, 87–90, 142

hylomorphism, 7, 16, 99, 152

impassivity (ἀπάθεια), 17, 22, 25–26, 43, 53, 69, 96–97, 133, 136–137, 146, 148, 150–151, 156–157, 160, 163, 184, 188–190, 198, 205, 211, 215, 222, 226

infallibility, of the senses, 101, 103, 167–168, 170–171, 173–175, 197

intention (species), 158–160

intentionality, 127

isomorphism (between soul and object of cognition), 50

Johansen, Thomas, 15, 126, 162, 179, 187, 214

John of Jandun, 157–161

Kalderon, Mark, 39, 43, 64

Kant, Immanuel, 15, 101

Kim, Jaegwon, 131

knowing, 42–43, 51, 53, 55, 68–69, 80, 95, 134, 171, 224–225

Kosman, Aryeh, 33, 63, 114–115

Kress, Emily, 78

krinein see discrimination (κρίνειν), perceptual

LAL (like is affected by like), 17, 36, 38–40, 43–44, 48–54, 56–57, 60–67, 69, 74, 80, 91

likeness, dynamic, 19, 21, 127–128, 130, 156, 191, 199, 215, 228

likeness, generic, 17, 30, 38, 44–49, 60–61, 77, 80, 95, 98

likeness, phenomenal, 19, 21, 120, 126–128, 130, 182, 210, 228

literalism, 23, 97–98, 112, 116, 118, 122–126, 180, 214, 216, 218, 221

LKL (like is known by like), 17, 36, 39–40, 43, 48, 51, 53, 60, 63, 65, 67–68, 73, 75, 95–96, 124, 169–172, 224

Aristotle’s engagement with, 49–53

challenges for, 53–60

and passivity of perception, 53–57

locomotion see self-motion

Lorenz, Hendrik, 131, 133, 160

Mansion, Suzanne, 39

Marmodoro, Anna, 102, 104, 109

materialism, 9, 115

non-reductive, 20, 131, 149, 228

as opposed to spiritualism, 19, 21, 23, 120–128, 156, 216, 220

mean (μεσότης), discriminative, 19, 21, 98, 110–111, 128, 130, 162, 164, 175, 177–179, 182–198, 200–201, 205

measure (μέτρον), 21, 173, 187–189, 191, 200, 202, 208, 210, 226

media, operation of, 19, 21, 65, 116, 118, 120–121, 125, 127, 129, 147, 200–202

indeterminacy of, 115–116

instability of, 115–116

and perception, 110–115

as qualitative conductors, 19, 117, 119–123, 129–130, 200

qualities encoded in, 117, 119

mediation, 19, 22, 117–118, 120–123, 125, 132, 149, 178, 200

medicine, the art of, 13, 47–48, 50, 76–77, 172, 199

medieval philosophy, 13, 138, 156–157

metaphors, 87, 148, 184–185, 190

movers, unmoved, 9–10, 20, 133, 141–144, 163, 186, 188, 190, 198–199, 226

natural philosophy, Aristotle’s, 34–35, 63, 204

Neo-Platonism, 150–151

Neo-Scholasticism, 127

nous (νοῦς), 8, 14, 24–26, 43, 51–52, 68, 83, 95–96, 146, 153, 171, 190, 222, 224

divine, 188

nutriments, 5, 132, 204, 206–207, 210

nutritive capacity, 5, 9, 21, 23, 99, 133–134, 149, 161, 163, 190, 202–206, 208–210, 215

objects, perceptual, 1, 19, 33, 48, 55, 58, 60, 70, 74, 79, 98, 102, 107–109, 116, 119–120, 125–127, 131–133, 135–136, 142, 147–150, 153, 159, 165, 178, 183, 187, 189–191, 200, 203, 206, 211–217, 220, 222, 230

agency of, 11, 30, 74, 80, 92, 110, 121, 127–130, 139, 142, 144, 146, 151, 158–159, 163, 184, 187–189, 191–193, 198–200, 206–208, 210, 220–221, 223, 225, 232

exclusive, 6, 102–103, 168

and the perceptual soul, 224–226

as unmoved causes, 21–22, 198–200

observability, 121

optics, 231

organs, sense, 19, 21–22, 35, 58, 64, 70, 97, 100, 108, 117–118, 122, 125–128, 131, 142, 147–148, 150, 156, 179–181, 185, 201, 212, 214–215, 219, 222

Owen, G. E. L., 39

Parmenides, 51, 56, 100, 112

parsimoniae, lex, 120

passions, 139–141, 143, 149, 163

passivity, kinds of, 28–30, 70, 79–83

perceiving, continued, 16, 19, 35–36, 60, 64–65, 68, 80, 82, 101, 182, 227

perception (αἴσθησις)

assimilation model of, 2, 16, 21–22, 34–39, 45, 64, 74–75, 79, 95, 116, 130, 152, 165, 177–182, 187, 192–193, 214, 231, 233

as a capacity, 5, 7, 18, 47, 58, 69, 79, 89, 91, 94, 152, 177–179, 183–185, 188–189, 192, 209–210, 212–215, 220, 222, 225, 231–233

causal nature of, 1–3, 34–36, 69, 119, 127, 135, 227–228

completeness of, 16–17, 33–38, 91

as composed from affection and something else, 19, 114, 127–129

as a discriminative activity, 165–197

as isolated from affection, 19, 114–115, 127–129

modal-specific, 2, 102, 168, 194, 213, 221

as non-kinetic, 27–28, 33, 62, 78, 90

as not passive, 11–15, 29, 146–150

object-directedness of, 18, 65, 72, 74, 80, 101

passivity of, 17, 24–28, 31, 43, 53–57, 91, 135–137, 145, 156–157, 160, 163, 190, 211

Platonic formula of, 135–136, 144, 156, 186, 230

programmatic definition of, 18, 94–99

qualitative nature of, 1–3, 228

as reception of forms without the matter, 2–3, 20, 23, 39, 64, 85, 110, 112, 115, 118, 133, 182, 187, 200, 212–223, 227

relational nature of, 1–3, 13, 97, 228

soul as efficient cause of, 20, 22, 135, 141, 156–164, 190, 202–211, 223, 232

as specification of affection, 19, 114–115, 128–129

perceptual qualities, bearers of, 6, 18, 21–22, 101–107, 110, 167, 193, 227–228

perceptual qualities, modal-specific, 21, 101, 104–105, 107, 129, 167, 170, 174, 192, 197, 227

phantasmata, 5, 35–36, 90, 94, 116, 124–126, 219–220

Philoponus, John, 51, 82, 114, 217

Pindar, 14

plants, 5, 134, 187, 216–217, 219

Plato, 8–9, 20, 50, 66, 76, 100, 136, 138, 144, 147, 153–155, 171–175, 185, 190

Plotinus, 14

pneuma, 201

Polansky, Ronald, 179

preservation (σωτηρία), 29, 80–82, 175–177, 203–211

preservative πάσχειν, 16–17, 25, 29, 31–33, 38, 40, 43, 45, 64, 71, 79, 82–83, 85, 87–91, 93–98, 111, 115, 117, 129, 133, 135, 146, 151, 182

aporetic interpretation of, 16, 27–28, 40, 145

deflationary interpretation of, 16, 27–31, 33, 80, 87, 135, 163

material interpretation of, 16, 27–29, 135, 137

psychic interpretation of, 16, 27–29, 131, 135, 214

producing (ποιεῖν), 14, 33, 35, 47, 50, 57, 62, 64, 77, 79, 81, 84, 87, 89, 92–93, 101, 105, 108, 127, 142, 155, 157, 163, 198–199, 201, 203, 205, 210–211

Protagoras, 100, 173–174

Protagoreanism, 43, 107, 159, 173–175, 189, 191, 198

Pseudo-Archytas, 14

Pseudo-Simplicius, 30, 214

puzzles (ἀπορίαι), 40–41, 51, 57, 73

ratio/proportion (λόγος), 23, 98, 117, 119, 122–124, 180, 189, 201, 210, 216, 221–222

realism, direct, 18, 100–101, 109

realism, uncompromised, 18, 109

relativism, 43, 107–108, 159, 171–172, 174

representationalism, 18–19, 123, 125

Ryle, Gilbert, 63, 67

Rylean passage, 132, 139, 142–143, 147–149, 151, 154, 156, 158, 184

self-contradiction, 52, 56, 60, 68

self-motion, 9, 20, 42, 138, 143, 150

self-preservation, 81, 95, 187, 206–207, 229

sense modalities, 6, 66–67, 102, 104–106, 108, 110, 176–178, 193–194

non-tangible, 22, 111, 178, 190, 198, 200–203

senses, distal, 106, 111, 113, 118, 200–201

sensus agens, 20, 156–159

Sextus Empiricus, 190

sight, 66, 70, 102, 110–111, 176, 178, 192, 195–196, 200, 208

Simplicius, 45

smell, 70, 97, 104, 110–111, 113–118, 120–122, 127–128, 193, 199, 208

Socrates, 77, 173–174

Sophonias, 93

soul, as principle (ἀρχή) of living beings, 134

soul, perceptive

agency of see perception (αἴσθησις), soul as efficient cause of

as art see art, analogy of

causality of, 7–8, 10, 20, 22, 133–137, 140–141, 144, 157, 184, 190, 202–211, 223, 232

community with the body, 138

contiguity with incoming motion, 144, 184, 186, 188

impassivity of see impassivity (ἀπάθεια)

localization of, 139, 144, 153, 155, 184, 186

motions of, 10, 132, 138–147, 150–156, 189

passivity of, 11, 13, 16, 136–137, 140, 145, 150, 230

sounding, 70, 105–106, 108, 117–118, 144, 233

spiritualism, 19, 23, 27, 98, 115, 117, 120–121, 131, 156, 180, 216, 218–221, 228

spontaneity, 15, 33

symbola (σύμβολα), 172–173, 191

synthesis, 6, 18, 101, 104

taste, 70, 102, 110, 119, 122, 174, 181, 195–196, 201, 206–208, 213, 221–222, 231–232

tense test, 16, 37–38, 62, 64, 67, 74, 76, 90–91

weakening of, 65–67

Themistius, 20, 27, 31, 78–79, 115–116, 138, 145, 150–156, 158, 196, 213–214

Theophrastus, 17, 26, 43, 51, 53–55, 57, 59, 64, 68–70, 87, 97, 112, 169–172, 212

thinking (νοεῖν), 2–6, 10–11, 13, 15, 24–26, 52, 83, 85, 90–94, 96, 128, 134–135, 142, 196, 229–230

Thucydides, 14

touch, 22, 67, 110–111, 119, 177–179, 183, 186, 190, 193–194, 201, 206–208, 214, 223

wax, analogy of, 112, 189, 213, 215, 219–220

William of Auvergne, 157

Zabarella, Jacoppo, 159–160, 162–163

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