PHIL 200 Lecture 16: Phil 200 Artistotle De Anima notes 2
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Aristotle says you never find matter on its own. Things that are alive must have something that things that are not alive do not have. Nature inner principle of rest and motion (like rocks) Natural living being inner principle of self-rest and self-motion (ability to self-nourish) Body (matter) + life (form) = composite being. 413a it is not the body that has cast off its soul that has potency to be alive, but rather one that has soul knowing/ contemplating are analogies. 2nd actualities involve body but soul cannot be body therefore it is the 1st actuality. 412b nutritive function requires parts must take in nutrition and metabolize it.
