PHL244H1 Lecture 6: Week 3 Lecture 6: Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics Pt.1
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Lecture 6: aristotle on the best human life (with a continuation of aristotle on the nature of the soul) Plato a soul that thinks can survive the death of the body. Aristotle the soul has characteristics of form (rational, nutritive, sensitive) n and s bound to body. Equivalent to demonstrating that there is an actuality of the organism that is not an actuality of any part of the body: *see chart from last lecture on parts of soul. Equivalent to demonstrating that there is a faculty with no bodily organ: activity of perception vs activity of thinking intellect does not have bodily organ. Perception involves receiving the form of a perceptive without the matter: that"s (cid:449)hat it is for per(cid:272)eptio(cid:374) to (cid:271)e of or a(cid:271)out that o(cid:271)je(cid:272)t. Receiving a form, f, is receiving an actuality seeing characteristics. If you are potentially f then you will be able to see f (ie. potential football player)
