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- Title
THE ARISTOTELIAN NOTION OF NOÛS: KNOWLEDGE OF FIRST PRINCIPLES AND CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE IN ARISTOTLE'S PROTREPTICUS.
- Authors
SEGGIARO, CLAUDIA
- Abstract
The aim of this article is to analyze the notion of noûs in Aristotle's Protrepticus. For this, I will focus on fragments 24, 28, 65 (6) and 110 (10c). By examining fragment 24, I argue that noûs is a faculty whose goal is the knowledge of intelligible objects. Through the analysis of fragments 28 and 65 (6), I try to show that the exercise of this faculty is not only one activity among others, but that it is distinctive of human beings, their own function, and for this reason, that on which their happiness depends. Finally, by means of fragment 110 (10c), I try to demonstrate why, despite the fact the noûs accounts for the divine in man, it constitutes his specific nature, that which not only sets him apart from other beings, but also from gods.
- Subjects
PROTREPTICUS (Book); ARISTOTLE, 384-322 B.C.; ARISTOTELIANISM (Philosophy); NOOS (The Greek word); LIFE; HAPPINESS
- Publication
Signos Filosóficos, 2014, Vol 16, Issue 32, p38
- ISSN
1665-1324
- Publication type
Literary Criticism