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Aristotle On Soul
Aristotle On Soul
Actuality- it
has become a
lovely bed!
Aristotle's philosophy was based on his
key distinction between MATTER and
FORM:
MATTER =
The raw materials
(e.g. wood)
FORM =
Bedness
Telos = purpose/goal
Soul = actuality
5. Matter is potentiality
6. Aristotle would say an ant has a soul
7. Plato and Aristotle both emphasise reason
8. Aristotle would say that if you had a
frontal lobotomy which destroyed your
ability to think you would no longer be
human
At the end of the
film the main
character is given
a frontal lobotomy
in the mental
hospital- his friend
decides to
smother him with a
pillow as he is less
than human