‘Just as in battle’: The simile of the rout in Aristotle’s ...

Borrowing the language of the racetrack metaphor at Nicomachean Ethics I 3, at this stage we are still very much on our way to the first principles. Philoponus (1909, 437, 5-6) paraphrases: ÖHgoun ≤ d¢ logikØ cuxØ pãsxei toËto, tÚ §k t«n poll«n mnhm«n §pisunãgein tÚ kayÒlou (‘That is to say, the rational soul undergoes this ... ................
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