PHILOS 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rationality
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What is it to be human by taking the definition to be human. Aristotle"s definition gives you the closest genus and the specific difference. What is it to be animal or rational. Animal: to have a nutritive soul and to have perception. Each of these things have the soul. Animals have all kinds of souls: nutritive, perception. In the hierarchy the level above has everything below it. Mistake to think that you can go up the ladder. Needs to account or the fact that each soul is integrated into the specific kind of species. Aristotle ranks them this way because of complexity. This is problematic though because it is in the viewpoint of humans. Aristotle"s point of view takes us as complex and looks down on the animals and says that they are less complex bc they can"t do certain things. Then looks down at the plants and says that he can do things that plants cannot do.
