De Anima (On the Soul)
Book
Domain Context
Life and Biology
Citation
Aristotle. (350 BCE). De Anima (On the Soul). Cambridge University Press.
Why this reference is included
Aristotle’s De Anima (On the Soul) (350 BCE), published by Cambridge University Press, sits in the program’s reference corpus as a standing technical source. Cited across Book VI (Categorical Life), Part 0, Chapter What Is Life? Why Every Classical Answer Fails; Book VI (Categorical Life), Part 7, Chapter The Self-Enrichment Ladder: E₀–E₃ Complete — the central framing is “Aristotle asked it in the fourth century BCE and answered with the concept of psyche—the animating soul that distinguishes the living from the dead”.
Cited in
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Book VI — Categorical Life Part 0Chapter What Is Life? Why Every Classical Answer Fails
Aristotle asked it in the fourth century BCE and answered with the concept of psyche—the animating soul that distinguishes the living from the dead
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Book VI — Categorical Life Part 0Chapter What Is Life? Why Every Classical Answer Fails
Why Every Classical Answer Fails Every classical attempt to define life—Aristotle's soul , Schr\"odinger's negentropy , NASA's working definition—captures a necessary condition but none is sufficient
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Book VI — Categorical Life Part 7Chapter The Self-Enrichment Ladder: E₀–E₃ Complete
Aristotle's formal cause —the eidos that makes a thing what it is—prefigures the structural predicate: life is defined by form, not by material