Article ID: CBB675892501

The Physiology of Phantasmata in Aristotle: Between Sensation and Digestion (2019)

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In this article, I foreground the physiology of phantasia in Aristotle, which has been comparatively understudied. In the first section, I offer a new interpretation of the relationship between aisthēmata (sense perceptions) and phantasmata, based on passages in the De Anima and the Parva Naturalia, and for a nuanced understanding of their respective substrates in the body, which I argue to be connate pneuma and blood. In the second section, I draw out the ramifications of this physiological presence of phantasmata in the blood and compare the integration of phantasmata into a person or animal’s experiential history with the process of digestion. Both processes, I contend, require internalization of foreign elements as well as their optimal organization; more strikingly, both processes occur in the same substance, in the same location, and, perhaps, at the same time.

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Authors & Contributors
Aubin, Nicholas
Patwardhan, Kishor
Singh, Aparna
Calloway B. Scott
Gehlot, Sangeeta
Agrawal, Sonam
Concepts
Soul (philosophy)
Philosophy
Physiology
Aristotelianism
Senses and sensation; perception
Blood
Time Periods
Ancient
Early modern
Medieval
18th century
17th century
10th century
Places
Greece
Europe
Rome (Italy)
India
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