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We expect from book 1 that Aristotle will begin with the general account or definition of soul (see 402a7–10). Since soul is the subject matter of the present investigation, the definition of soul will provide the primary principle. Unlike most of his predecessors who concentrated exclusively on animal or even merely human soul, Aristotle ...
- Ronald Polansky
- 2007
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namely the immortality of the soul and the direct creation of the human soul by God. Hunter urges strongly that idea of the soul is not an antiquated concept, and that, moreover, Thomist views of the soul can still make sense in the twenty-first century. Nancey Murphy offers some fascinating reflections on the question of
Haslanger. 1. 24.01: Classics of Western Philosophy. This brings out the idea that soul is form, body is matter, and that you would not have the one without the either—contrary to Plato, they are interdependent. C. Second comparison: body and soul are like an axe and ‘the account of an axe’.
(viz., an intellective soul). (B) Human persons have certain powers (including all of their mental powers, e.g., their powers to think, to sense, to imagine, etc.) at least partially in virtue of having the kind of souls that they do. (In the traditional Aristotelian jargon, a person’s soul is a
soul appears not as a viamediabetween the Platonists and the physicists, but as an internal critique, by Platonist standards, of Plato and Xenocrates. Guided by these clues from the critical Deanima1, I shall try to read Aristotle’s positive treatment of soul beginning in Dean-ima 2.1—his definition of soul and his programme, implicit in
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Aristotle’s philosophy of self was constructed in terms of hylomorphism in which the soul of a human being is the form or the structure of the human body or the human matter, i.e., the functional organization in virtue of which human beings are able to perform their characteristic activities of life, including growth, nutrition, reproduction, perception, imagination, desire, and thinking.
