A moving magical head

Book 1 On the Soul Aristotle

Aristotle starts by broadening what can be considered a soul and some approaches that have been in the past. This book we discover that it's hard to come with a simple explanation. There seems to be some consensus that the soul cause moving things to be in motion and is integral to a beings ability to sense. But even this can be a suspicious notion to depend on.

When we consider other approaches we find thinkers favoring a material approach that can be promising as it seems there's obviously matter. There is also thinkers favoring the intellect as the soul which could sound like a good idea, and then kind of quirky notions like the soul arising from harmonious ratios that ultimately reduce the soul to a number.

In this book we don't really come to a conclusion on one thing over another but more or less are being prepared to scramble expectations of something straight forward theory. Aristotle summons these past thinkers but in a way humiliates them by announcing their theory and then in a matter of sentences over turning what some thought was a solid answer to a complicated matter.

Aristotle has not said this is so but we do keep returning to the themes of motion and sensation that will undoubtedly play an important role as the thought about the soul continues. 

The Ram, The Cat, and the Twelve Wolves Russian Fairy Tales A. Afanasev

This collection of stories seems to run in strange themes where the stories kind of have something related to them to the one that follows. This story is a familiar story where a character finds a severed head while going somewhere. This head is a bit less magica...