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DE ANIMA

ADVISORY EDITOR: BETTY RADICE

ARISTOTLE was born at Stageira, in the dominion of the kings of Macedonia, in 384 BC. For twenty years he studied at Athens in the Academy of Plato, on whose death in 347 he left, and, some time later, became tutor of the young Alexander the Great. When Alexander succeeded to the throne of Macedonia in 336, Aristotle returned to Athens and established his school and research institute, the Lyceum, to which his great erudition attracted a large number of scholars. After Alexander's death in 323, anti-Macedonian feeling drove Aristotle out of Athens, and he fled to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322. His writings, which were of extraordinary range, profoundly affected the whole course of ancient and medieval philosophy, and they are still eagerly studied and debated by philosophers today. Very many of them have survived and among the most famous are the Ethics and t h e Politics, both of which are published in Penguin Classics, together with The Athenian Constitution, De Anima, The Art of Rhetoric, Poetics and the Metaphysics.

HUGH LAWSON-TANCRED was born in 1955 and educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He is currently a Departmental Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Birkbeck College in the University of London. He has published extensively on Aristotle and Plato and is engaged in research in the philosophy of linguistics and cognitive science. His translations of Aristotle's The Art of Rhetoric and The Metaphysics are also published in Penguin Classics. He is married with a daughter and a son and lives in north London and Somerset.

ARISTOTLE

DE ANIMA

(ON THE SOUL)

TRANSLATED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BY HUGH LAWSON-TANCRED

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First published 1986 19

Translation, Introduction and Notes copyright ? Hugh Lawson-Tancred, 1986 All rights reserved

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IN PIAM MEMORIAM W. G. WILLIAMSON

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