PHIL 2010 Lecture 4: Aristotle Notes
1 Jan 2016
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Everything that is a certain way is that way by participating in a form or principle. The form is what makes them that way. Something is beautiful by participating in the form of beauty. They thing that is beautiful is not beauty itself. When a thing changes, the form perishes or goes away. Forms immortality (argument) forms cannot admit of their opposites. 1: soul is the form of life, death is the opposite of life, soul cannot admit of death. When the body changes from alive to dead, the form themselves are unchanged: form of life must perish or go away. 2: therefore, the soul must continue to exist but go away to perish would be to die. The soul cannot admit its opposite, thus cannot perish therefore, the soul is immortal. Plato describes forms as abstract universals (beauty, justice, good) that exist apart from physical objects and manifest them.
