10. Life after Death: Aristotle
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- 10. Life after Death: Aristotle
- All living things have a soul, which actualises the body and isn't separate (monism)
- When the body dies, the soul dies too
- Faculties of the soul
- Nutrition
- Vegetative souls (plants) possess the faculty of nutrition (obtain food to stay alive)
- Perception
- Desire
- Movement
- Sensitive souls (animals) posses these faculties cumulatively which helps sustain life
- Intellect
- Rational souls (humans) possess intellect as well as the other faculties.
- Aristotle argues this is what distinguishes mankind from other creatures
- Rational souls (humans) possess intellect as well as the other faculties.
- Nutrition
- The psyche is the animator/the life force and a creature's psyche is its "principle of life" which distinguished it from a corpse or inanimate object.
- Controls the function, structure and organisation of the body
- Creatures fulfill their telos (purpose, final cause) by satisfying these faculties of the soul, i.e. humans by growing, reproducing,, satisfying desires and thinking and living a deliberative life
- All living things have a soul, which actualises the body and isn't separate (monism)
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