Abstract

ARAIZA, Jesús. Una aproximación a las nociones de sujeto y de verdad práctica en Aristóteles. Nova tellus [online]. 2009, vol.27, n.1, pp.141-189. ISSN 0185-3058.

According to Aristotle, practical truth occurs in man due to a true opinion emerging from the soul, simultaneously with an honest deed. In contrast, the untrue in the sphere of actions occurs as a result of a false opinion and a dishonest deed. The imagination (phantasia) plays a determining role in the sphere of actions, for it is a movement produced from perception in act. The living deceive themselves if they confuse images with real objects. The cause of illusions is the imagination, for it is the residual images remaining when the sensible object is no longer there that move other animals lacking intellect; they are also what moves man in the form of dreams during sleep or, in the form of passion or sickness during waking hours, as a result of the intellect becoming clouded over.

Keywords : illusion; imagination; perception; practical truth; subject.

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