abstract:

By scholarly consensus, extant fragments from, and testimony about, Aristotle's lost dialogue Eudemus provide strong evidence for thinking that Aristotle at some point defended the human soul's unqualified immortality (either in whole or in part). I reject this consensus and develop an alternative, deflationary, speculative, but textually supported proposal to explain why Aristotle might have written a dialogue featuring arguments for the soul's unqualified immortality. Instead of defending unqualified immortality as a doctrine, I argue, the Eudemus was most likely offering a dramatically engaging propaedeutic to the sort of philosophical inquiry about the soul and its prospects that Aristotle pursues more scientifically in the De anima and Parva naturalia.

摘要：

根据学术共识，亚里士多德遗失的对话欧德摩斯的现存片段和证词为认为亚里士多德在某些时候捍卫人类灵魂的不朽不朽（全部或部分）提供了强有力的证据。我拒绝这种共识，并提出了一个替代的、通货紧缩的、推测性的、但有文字支持的建议，以解释为什么亚里士多德可能会写一篇以论证灵魂不朽不朽为特色的对话。相反，卫冕不合格不朽的学说，我认为中，Eudemus最有可能提供一个显着接合propaedeutic到那种关于灵魂的哲学探究其发展前景，亚里士多德追求更加科学的论灵魂和帕尔瓦自然。