Three German Commentators on the Individual Senses and the Common Sense in Aristotle's Psychology

58 " Three German Commentators on the Individual Senses and the Common Sense in Aristotle's Psychology" IRVING BLOCK his paper is undoubtedly pedantic but the point at issue is im- portant for the understanding of Aristotle's psychological writings. It is that the De Anima is an incomplete and immature working-out of Aristotle's views on sense perception, whereas Aristot- le's matured and crystallized views on this subject are to be sought in the Parva Naturalia, particularly in the De Memoyia, De Somno, and De Insomniis. This is a long point and has been argued elsewhere.1 The fulcrum of that argument turned

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