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AOIZ, Javier. Soul and body: pilot and ship: About an ancient analogy. EPISTEME [online]. 2016, vol.36, n.2, pp.1-17. ISSN 0798-4324.

Descartes introduces in his Meditations on first philosophy the notion of ‘self-body’ from the rejection of a nautical analogy from Aristotle’s De anima (413a8-9). In the paper I analyze this Aristotelian passage, the history of analogy and Descartes' use of it in order to emphasize that pain and the passivity of perceptions constitute the primordial manifestation of the self-body. Contemporary philosophers such as L. Landgrebe and L. O'Brien argue, on the contrary, that the ownership of the self-body is based on the self-movement and the consciousness that the agents possess of their basic actions.

Palavras-chave : Aristotle; Nautical Analogy; Descartes.

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