Filosofia – Pensadores e Obras

Categoria: Porfírio (séc. III)

  • Guthrie (Porfírio) – Das faculdades da alma

    DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SENSATION AND INTELLIGENCE. Aristo (there were two philosophers by this name, one a Stoic, the other an Aristotelian) attributes to the soul a perceptive faculty, which he divides into two parts. According to him, the first, called sensibility, the principle and origin of sensations, is usually kept active by some one of the…

  • Porfírio: preconcepção (proeilephos)

    For perception is a material and passive criterion, while reason (logos) is a formal one and the cause from which motion and being come; on that account sensation, in judging (krinein) by its affection and materially, apprehends things approximately and to the extent that the sense object makes its mark upon it, and signals no…