Introduction

Summary

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book as a whole, which tries to put a question to Aristotle and to work out his answer to it as developed in the De Anima. The question, roughly put, is about Mind and World: what about the one makes it such as to know the other? The book’s principal contentions are, first, that this question is Aristotle’s, and second, that the nub of his answer is that in a way Mind is World – in his language, “psuchē in a way is all beings.”