Aristotle on the Undivided Self

* Book:"Undivided Self: Aristotle and the 'Mind-Body Problem', David Charles, 2021,

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From the Preface:

"Aristotle undertook a systematic investigation of perception, the emotions, memory, desire, and action, developing his own account of these phenomena and their interconnection. My aim is to gain a philosophical understanding of his views and to examine how far they withstand critical scrutiny.

Aristotle’s approach calls into question the way in which our, post- Cartesian, mind–body problem [as an *effect* of PRINT Paradigm, aka "modernity"] has been formulated. He was guided throughout by a conception of the psychological and of the material that was rejected by those who originally set up and subsequently sought to address our problem. His views constitute an alternative to basic elements of our conventional thinking about psychological phenomena and their place in a material world. They offer, in effect, the resources to dissolve, rather than solve, the mind–body problem we have inherited. Or so I shall argue . . ."