PHIL 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter book two: Aviary, Chlorophyll
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Aristotle classifies substantial being into three types. knowledge is to contemplation what possession is to having in the aviary model in the theaetetus. ) The soul is a form"s first actuality, so a form"s developed capacity: aristotle gives three connected definitions of the soul. The nutritive power us the activity in virtue of the soul, it is the first potency of the soul. The soul is the cause as that for the sake of which. Opposite is the nutriment for opposite and like is unaffected by like and nutriment changes and is digested. Observe: if nutritive potency preserves what has it, then the nutritive potency preserves itself; and by preserving itself, it preserves what has it. By preserving the natural living body, the nutriment potency preserves itself. You need nourishment to live, so the nutriment preserves the life and the life preserves nutriment potency: 416b20 ff.