Aristotelianism

In the Aristotelian frameworks that largely dominated Western scholarly thought from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century, the soul was a principle of life, that which animated potentially live matter.

In this period, the philosophy of Aristotle and particularly its concept of the soul, presented in his book De Anima, were a great influence to Western thinkers. According to Vidal and Ortega, "as the Aristotelian frameworks disintegrated in the seventeenth century, the soul ceased to be responsible for organic functions".

Vidal, Fernando and Ortega, Francisco. Being Brains: Making the Cerebral Subject (Forms of Living) (...

Vidal, Fernando and Ortega, Francisco. Being Brains: Making the Cerebral Subject (Forms of Living)....

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