Aristotel o nujnosti čutnega zaznavanja

Abstract

Aristotle on the Necessity of Sense Perception - The purpose of the paper is to illuminate Aristotle’s understanding of sense perception. In doing so, we focus only on the question of the necessity of sense perception for animals. Firstly, Aristotle uses sense perception as a way to distinguish between the genus of the animals and the genus of the living, which implies that sense perception necessarily belongs to every animal. Secondly, we deal with Aristotle’s understanding of sense perception in its primary task: sense perception is essential for the preservation of animals. In the third step we show what is necessarily derived from the sense perception, and this is: the perception of pleasure and pain, the appetite and the locomotion of animals.

Keywords

• aristotle
• sense perception
• touch
• nutrition
• appetite