Diego Rivera
Michael Polanyi College
Semester Three, Socratic Practice
September 1st, 2013
Michael Polanyi College
Semester Three, Socratic Practice
September 1st, 2013
Aristotle’s De Anima
1. A body only has the capacity of life when it has a soul. (line 10)
2. Potentially Existent: “The Body”
+ Actuality: “The Soul”
Body + Soul = “The Animal
= Full Actuality: “The Waking State” (from 11)
3. The soul cannot be separated from the body (12)
4. “It is life which distinguishes the animate from the inanimate”
5. Senses of life:
- Intellect, sensation, motion from place to place and rest, and motion concerned with nutrition, decay and growth. (3, p. 55)
6. Plants only have the motion concerned with nutrition, decay, and growth. This motion can be separated from the others.
7. In mortal creatures, others (forms of life) cannot be separated from it (motion of nutrition, decay, and growth).
8. Plants only have the faculty of soul of that form of life (nutrition, decay, and growth)
9. Animals have this motion plus sensation (in that differs them from plants).
10. A creature that doesn’t have the motion of movement, but has that of nutrition and sensation is an animal.
11. The primary sense (of the form sensation) of animals is touch. They all have it and it can exist apart from other senses, but other senses cannot exist apart from touch.
12. “The soul is the origin of the functions (or forms of life) and is determined by them (it’s not circular, it just determines what kind of soul it is. In plants, it’s only a soul of nutrition, decay, and growth.)”
2. Potentially Existent: “The Body”
+ Actuality: “The Soul”
Body + Soul = “The Animal
= Full Actuality: “The Waking State” (from 11)
3. The soul cannot be separated from the body (12)
4. “It is life which distinguishes the animate from the inanimate”
5. Senses of life:
- Intellect, sensation, motion from place to place and rest, and motion concerned with nutrition, decay and growth. (3, p. 55)
6. Plants only have the motion concerned with nutrition, decay, and growth. This motion can be separated from the others.
7. In mortal creatures, others (forms of life) cannot be separated from it (motion of nutrition, decay, and growth).
8. Plants only have the faculty of soul of that form of life (nutrition, decay, and growth)
9. Animals have this motion plus sensation (in that differs them from plants).
10. A creature that doesn’t have the motion of movement, but has that of nutrition and sensation is an animal.
11. The primary sense (of the form sensation) of animals is touch. They all have it and it can exist apart from other senses, but other senses cannot exist apart from touch.
12. “The soul is the origin of the functions (or forms of life) and is determined by them (it’s not circular, it just determines what kind of soul it is. In plants, it’s only a soul of nutrition, decay, and growth.)”