Three Kinds or Grades of Phantasia in Aristotle’s De Anima

Bibliographic Data

ID23239913
AuthorsChristina S Papachristou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume7
Issue1
Publication date2013-06-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Ancient Philosophy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1981-9471 • E-ISSN: 1981-9498
PublisherUniversidade de Sao Paulo, Agencia USP de Gestao da Informacao Academica (AGUIA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v7i1p19-48
OpenAlexW2005122442
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited13

Phantasia / imagination in Aristotle is one of the parts or faculties / powers of the soul that cannot exist apart from sensation and thought. The function of phantasia and its connection with phantasmata, the products of this faculty, plays a significant role in the psychological treatises of the Aristotelian Corpus. The purpose of this paper is to examine the concept of phantasia in Book III, Chapter 3 of De Anima, and to show that the Stagyrite philosopher distinguishes three and not two kinds of phantasia, starting from the lowest, which is found in imperfect creatures, to the highest, which appears only in the human beings.

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