The human perceptual powers of Aristotle

Abstract

The human perceptual powers of Aristotle are among the natural sciences that I care about, especially since they are the focus of his natural assets, which lack bodily organs.The soul, being the basis of the perceptual powers of man, is also a general principle of life in which animals and plants also share despite their different ranks in the ladder of physical existence.However, according to Aristotle, this human being is the only one who uses the cognitive act according to which his knowledge of the duality of form and matter is represented through his possession of the mind in its two parts: The first is "passive practical" who accepts the sensual images that come to him, and is like the substance, except that it has no positive function. The second is the "effective theoretical" by which man extracts things from the state of negative perceptual images to the state of mental perceptions, and that is through the motive force and its relationship to pleasure and movement, and all this occurs according to the principle of the imagination towards which the motive force moves.