De Anima (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.


 


In
De Anima, Aristotle seeks to uncover what separates the living from the dead. He steers a course between two extremes, with all of reality as nothing more than atoms on one side and the mind as independent from the body on the other side. Ultimately, he invents a third kind of position that views mental phenomena to be thoroughly dependent on, though not reducible to, physical events.

About the author

Aristotle was born at Stagira in Chalcidice, now part of Northern Greece, in 384 BC. Aristotle supervised the education of Alexander the Great, and later he established a school for philosophy called the Lyceum. His other works include Nicomachean Ethics and Politics.