Aristotle on the soul
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- Aristotle on the Soul
- was interested in the physical world around us
- Took a more materialistic attitude than Plato
- He thought it wasnt an invisible eternal part of the person
- He thought the soul included all the characteristics of the person
- Functions
- Capabilities
- Structure
- Matter
- He thought the soul included all the characteristics of the person
- He thought it wasnt an invisible eternal part of the person
- Took a more materialistic attitude than Plato
- Soul is a SUBSTANCE
- 'essence' or 'real thing'
- Our body changes but our SUBSTANCE remains the same
- This continuing identity is what he thought was the SOUL
- 'Psyche'
- This continuing identity is what he thought was the SOUL
- The soul is what gives a living thing its essence
- so that it is not just matter
- But has all the capabilities and characteristics it needs to be what it is
- so that it is not just matter
- Living things are distinguished by what they can do
- Their Capabilities
- The capabilities is what Aristotle defines as the soul
- A soul is what distinguishes a living thing from a dead thing
- Their Capabilities
- He believed there were variations of the soul
- Plants have a vegative nutriative soul
- But cant reason or make plans
- Can only nourish themselves and reproduce
- But cant reason or make plans
- Animals have 'perceptive' souls
- they have senses to see the world around them
- They have intelligence to distinguish between pleasure and pain
- Humans have a higher degree of soul as they have the ability to reason
- Plants have a vegative nutriative soul
- The soul is not separate from the body, the soul is the capacities the body has
- The soul is linked with causality
- The soul is that which gives the matter its form
- Its efficiency
- final purpose
- The soul is that which gives the matter its form
- The soul is linked with causality
- If an eye had a soul its soul would be the capacity to see
- Without this it would just be matter
- Soul in inseperable from the living body
- Dont live on after death because soul dies when we die
- Soul cant survive if it is not in a living body
- Dont live on after death because soul dies when we die
- was interested in the physical world around us
- It's form were these
- Formal cause (what it is made of
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