{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0086.tlg002.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg002.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg002.local001","title":"De anima","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":["On the Soul","De l’âme","De l'âme","Περὶ ψυχῆς"],"author":"Aristotle","authorityName":"ARISTOTELES Phil. et CORPUS AR-","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0086-aristoteles-phil-et-corpus-ar/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0086-aristoteles-phil-et-corpus-ar/","editors":["Immanuel Bekker"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Aristotelis Opera","edition":null,"publisher":"Oxford University Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1837","volume":"3","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"A Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic Studies, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation","sponsors":[],"funders":["Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Published original versions of the electronic texts","names":[]},{"role":"Keyboarding","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433022674836?urlappend=%3Bseq=168","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aristotle. De anima. ed. Immanuel Bekker. Aristotelis Opera, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1837. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg002.local001","excerpt":"ΤΩΝ καλῶν καὶ τιμίων τὴν εἴδησιν ὑπολαμβάνοντες, μᾶλλον δ’ ἑτέραν ἑτέρας ἢ κατ’ ἀκρίβειαν ἢ τῷ βελτιόνων τε καὶ θαυμασιωτέρων εἶναι, δι’ ἀμφότερα ταῦτα τὴν τῆς ψυχῆς ἱστορίαν εὐλόγως ἂν ἐν πρώτοις τιθείημεν. Δοκεῖ δὲ καὶ πρὸς ἀλήθειαν ἅπασαν ἡ γνῶσις αὐτῆς μεγάλα συμβάλλεσθαι, μάλιστα δὲ πρὸς τὴν φύσιν· ἔστι γὰρ οἷον ἀρχὴ τῶν ζῴων. Ἐπιζητοῦμεν δὲ θεωρῆσαι καὶ γνῶναι τήν τε φύσιν αὐτῆς καὶ τὴν οὐσίαν, εἶθ’ ὅσα συμβέβηκε περὶ αὐτήν· ὧν τὰ μὲν ἴδια πάθη τῆς ψυχῆς εἶναι δοκεῖ, τὰ δὲ δι’ ἐκείνην καὶ τοῖς ζῴοις ὑπάρχειν. Πάντῃ δὲ πάντως ἐστὶ τῶν χαλεπωτάτων λαβεῖν τινὰ πίστιν περὶ αὐτῆς. Καὶ γὰρ ὄντος κοινοῦ τοῦ ζητήματος πολλοῖς ἑτέροις, λέγω δὲ τοῦ περὶ τὴν οὐσίαν καὶ τοῦ τί ἐστι, τάχ’ ἄν τῳ δόξειε μία τις εἶναι μέθοδος κατὰ πάντων περὶ ὧν βουλόμεθα γνῶναι τὴν οὐσίαν, ὥσπερ καὶ τῶν κατὰ συμβεβηκὸς ἰδίων ἀπόδειξιν, ὥστε ζητητέον ἂν εἴη τὴν μέθοδον ταύτην. Εἰ δὲ μή ἐστι μία τις καὶ κοινὴ…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg002.local001/1-book-1/"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg002.local001/2-book-2/"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg002.local001/3-book-3/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg002.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0086.tlg002.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086/tlg002/local001.json.gz"}}