On the Soul: and Other Psychological Works (Oxford World's Classics)

In On the Soul (De Anima), Aristotle investigates what it means for a living thing to be alive. He treats the soul through the capacities that distinguish living beings—nutrition, sensation, desire, movement, imagination and thought—placing questions of mind and perception within a larger account of embodied life.

The volume sets On the Soul beside shorter works on sensation, memory, sleep, dreams and related psychological processes. Read together, they show Aristotle working through a connected set of problems about how living creatures perceive, remember, think and act, and how those capacities belong to the wider study of nature.