PHIL 301 Lecture Notes - On The Soul, Direct And Indirect Realism
23 Nov 2012
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3 functions of soul: reason, perception, nutrition/growth (reproduction) The act of sensing caused by the interaction between an actuality and a sensory organ. From lecture definition: having a capacity for receiving the form of x, x affecting this capacity by giving the capacity form, the capacity now having a form in accordance with the form of x. There are two interpretations of this idea: literalism, representationalism. Your capacity to perceive a quality of an object physically changes such that it matches the quality. (i. e. something that is red will literally change your visual perception such that it is red): advantage, disadvantage: Qualities of objects are represented within your capacity to perceive the object as being those qualities. (i. e. a red item is represented as being red in your visual capacity). Note that aristotle never implicitly says this: advantage: Does not entail that all perception involves the literal sharing of qualities of a form (or an object of perception).
