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Soul & Body De Anima

Soul & Body De Anima. By Jessica BachellieR, Kayla Dariano , & David Liang. Soul and Body, Form and Matter: Aristotle. Aristotle thought of himself as a pupil of Plato, yet they had a different belief about the nature of the soul.

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Soul & Body De Anima

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  1. Soul & BodyDe Anima By Jessica BachellieR, Kayla Dariano, & David Liang

  2. Soul and Body, Form and Matter: Aristotle • Aristotle thought of himself as a pupil of Plato, yet they had a different belief about the nature of the soul. • Aristotle believed that all living things are made of soul and body.

  3. Definitions of Soul:According to Aristotle • Existing Substance • The soul is the lowest, first stage of actualization of the body that potentially has life. • Soul is the first act of the natural organized body.

  4. Soul • For Aristotle soul is simply a form of biological nature or form of the body. • Contributed to the knowledge of the truth and knowledge of nature. • “For Aristotle form stands to body in the same way as form stands to matter.” • Aristotle believes in soul language and physical language which describes a single biological creature. • Aristotle refuses to treat the soul as a special immaterial entity.

  5. Soul Continued… • Soul is distinguished from matter not by life. • There are different parts of the soul such as intellect and potentiality for contemplation. • These type of soul can exist separately, but the remaining parts, away from intellect and contemplation, cannot exist separately. • States of the soul are the forms realized in matter. • Form is related to the soul, but to be the form it has to be realized in the matter.

  6. Soul is biological nature

  7. Substance • Aristotle believes soul involves substance. • Substance is a category according to Aristotle. • Substances includes form and matter. • “A substance is generated by having matter take on form.” • Substance is separable and individual.

  8. Aristotle Describes Substance as…. • Primary cause of being. • Nature of a plant or animal • Not an element, but a principle.

  9. Matter and Form • Matter is no substance because it can not be both separate and individual. • Form is primary substance that is also called essence by Aristotle. • Form is the compound of matter. • Form the natural way something is.

  10. Problems with the Soul • The soul does not act apart from the body. • All affections of the soul are principles involving matter. • “The principle of the thing must be in matter of such and such a kind if it is to exist.” • All affection of the soul involve the body such as passion, anger, and joy.

  11. Alternative views on the soul • Dualism • Radical materialism • Aristotle’s soul is the moderate view between radical materialism and dualism

  12. Dualism • “The ontological view that reality is composed of two kinds of beings, usually minds and bodies.” (definition is from packet) • Plato and Descartes are examples of philosophers with this view.

  13. Plato’s Objection of Aristotle’s Soul • The soul and the body are two different realities. • The soul is divine by nature that is eternal and immortal. • The soul must be purified, but if it is not then an individual will go through reincarnations until purified.

  14. Radical Materialism • Materialism is “the ontological view that all reality can be shown to be material in nature.” (definition from packet) • Karl Marx is a philosopher with this point of view on the soul.

  15. REMEMBER • Soul can not exist without the body • A substance is destroyed by having to loose form.

  16. Bibliography • Cohen, Marc. "Substance, Matter, and Form." UW Faculty Web Server. 9 July 2002. Web. 17 Feb. 2010. <http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/zeta17.htm>. • Cottinham. Western Philosophy: An Anthology. 2nd ed. Print.

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