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On the Soul · De Anima by Aristotle (audiobook)

Uncompressed 16-bit 44.1 kHz WAV version of the LibriVox.org audiobook. On the Soul · De Anima by Aristotle Translated by R. D. Hicks Read in English by Geoffrey Edwards Meta-Coordinator/Cataloging and Dedicated Proof-Listener: Guero. CD Insert: Scott Carpenter Cover: The Abduction of Proserpine by Alessandro Allori (1535-1607), c. 1570. Scanned by The J. Paul Getty Museum. On the Soul (Ancient Greek: ΠΕΡΙ ΨΥΧΗΣ Latin: De Anima) is a major treatise by Aristotle on the nature of living things. His discussion centres on the kinds of souls possessed by different kinds of living things, distinguished by their different operations. Thus plants have the capacity for nourishment and reproduction, the minimum that must be possessed by any kind of living organism. Lower animals have, in addition, the powers of sense-perception and self-motion (action). Humans have all these as well as intellect. The notion of soul used by Aristotle is only distantly related to the usual modern conception. He holds that the soul is the form, or essence of any living thing; that it is not a distinct substance from the body that it is in; that it is the possession of soul (of a specific kind) that makes an org

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