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Descartes and 'The Aristotelians' on the Soul as the Life of the Body | Prof. Sarah Byers

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The History of Kinesis in Antiquity

Professor Byers: I think the thing that stood out to me most was more actually what's going on in the manuals and the translation issue. In medieval scholasticism, Kinesis is still being called mochus. So they want them to be able to go and read Aquinas or someone in Latin and see motives and basically recognize that word. But the difficulty with that is it does put all the onus on the teacher.

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