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The Priority of the Soul as Actuality in Aristotle’s De anima
- The Review of Metaphysics
- The Philosophy Education Society, Inc.
- Volume 74, Number 3 (Issue No. 295), March 2021
- pp. 243-268
- 10.1353/rvm.2020.0088
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
Abstract:
What has heretofore seemed to be a transitional passage in De anima 2.2 is key to explicating the causal priority of the soul as actuality of the body. Soul is prior not only to matter and the activities of life but also to its powers and to any other actuality of the body. This substantial, and not just temporal, priority is articulated in the contrast between soul and knowledge in De anima 2.2.414a8-14: we live, perceive, and think in virtue of both the soul and the formal qualities of the body, but we do so primarily only in virtue of the soul.
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