During an AEI event on Tuesday evening, Herman discussed these topics, which he details in his new book, “The Cave and the Light: Plato versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western ...

What does Aristotle say? Like many people today, Aristotle’s teacher, the famous Greek philosopher Plato (428 or 427-348 or 347 BCE), believed that the soul exists independently of the body.

That book, The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization by Arthur Herman, should be standard reading in every Philosophy 101 course, and on ...

De Anima- He created a masterwork of philosophical understanding by trying to establish his theory of the soul as the ultimate reality of embodied form. Organon- The book refers to a collection of ...

And while the book’s reception has been mostly positive, it has stirred some controversy in the past. Spoilers for Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe beyond this point.

Simon Critchley's The Book of Dead Philosophers.Critchley illustrates one of these constants when he writes of Thomas Aquinas: "... Thomas follows Aristotle, the soul is the form of the body. The ...

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