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Aristotle’s Mark of Sentience

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Published/Copyright: July 8, 2014
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Abstract

I reconsider Aristotle’s account of perception by way of an ‘organic’ reading of the sensitive mean. I argue that the mean serves as a homeostatic mechanism that allows for the replication of forms in the organs in the process of perceptual alteration. The mean, as a product of properly constituted organs, is that by which Aristotle separates animals from plants.

Published Online: 2014-7-8
Published in Print: 2014-7-1

© 2014 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

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