PHILOS 25A Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: On The Soul
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The foundational part of his science of living beings, and the first principle of the science of living things. Aristotle"s three definitions of the soul: the soul, then, must be substance as the form of a natural body that is potentially alive. in other words, the soul is form, and the body is matter. For while one" and being" are spoken of in several ways, the actuality are fully one. Two analogies for a better understanding of the soul: the axe and the functional parts of the body. In fact, however, it is an axe; for the soul is not the essence and form of this sort of body but of the specific sort of natural body that has in itself a principle of motion and rest. November 14, 2014: the function of an axe (they chop hard things) is what it is to be an axe.
