Philosophy 1250F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Deontological Ethics, Practical Reason, On The Heavens
13 Sep 2018
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He assumes we are rational animals, animals of a kind. Vegetables are alive, but they do not move around on their own. They grow, and they die, so they"re alive, but they don"t move on their own. He thinks people have souls, but he doesn"t think they are separate from us. Living thing shave souls, and the soul is like the principle of functional organization of the body. As long as our body is functioning, than we have a soul, but people die, and plants die too, and when that happens this is because they are not functionally organized anymore. This is when you have no soul and thats when you decay. Aristotle doesn"t have a view of immortality, your life is your life and one day it will be done. The ancient greeks believe there were immortal beings, but their bodies are way better than ours, not because they are stronger but because they never stop functioning.
