Episode 131: Aristotle's "De Anima": What Is the Mind?
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2016
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
Our second discussion of De Anima or On the Soul (350 BCE), this time on book 3. What is the intellect? We talk about its highest part/function: nous, which is a "form of forms," literally nothing until it thinks, survives death and is not actually yours or mine, but just the universal mind!
This continues the discussion from ep. 130 and includes a preview of the Aftershow featuring Rebecca Goldner.
End song: "Wonderful You" (live 2001) by Mark Lint.
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| 0:41.7 | Our question for episode 131 is something like, |
| 0:44.2 | what is the mind? |
| 0:45.2 | And we're following up on episode 130, where we read books one and two of |
| 0:48.7 | airstuttles, Day Anima, by this time adding book three, which concerns the intellect. |
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