U N D E R S TA N D I N

G THE SELF

ARISTOTLE
ON THE INDIVIDUALITY OF THE
PSYCHOL OGY 2 SELF
 WHO IS
ARISTOTLE?
- Born on the Chalcidic peninsula of
Macedonia
- His father, Nicomachus, was the
physician of Amyntas III (reigned c.
393–c. 370 BCE)
- Aristotle migrated to Athens, where he
joined the Academy of Plato (c. 428–c.
348 BCE)
ARISTOTLE
• Ancient Greek Philosopher
• Scientist
• Author of a philosophical and scientific system
• Aristotle sees philosophy as an extension of science,
• he is attempting to understand the whole—the universe,
humanity, and culture.
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SOCRATES MENTORED PLATO,

AND PLATO MENTORED ARISTOTLE

Plato spread Socrates's teachings Plato mentored Aristotle in

and philosophy as far and wide as philosophy and, in the
he could. Macedonian village of Mieza.
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Plato and Aristotle has

different stand in every PLATO
matter.
Each of them has their own belief and stand on a
certain things.
AND
Plato believed that concepts had a universal form, an ideal form,
ARISTOTL
E
which leads to his idealistic philosophy. Aristotle believed that
universal forms were not necessarily attached to each object or
concept, and that each instance of an object or a concept had to be
analyzed on its own.
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ARISTOTLE UNDENIABLY DIVERGED FROM PLATO IN

HIS VIEW OF WHAT A HUMAN BEING MOST TRULY AND
FUNDAMENTALLY IS.

•Plato, at least in many of his dialogues, held
that the true self of human beings is the reason
or the intellect that constitutes their soul that is
separable from their body.
• Aristotle, for his part, insisted that the
human being is a composite of body and soul
and that the soul cannot be separated from
the body
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Aristotle’s philosophy of self was constructed in

terms of hylomorphism in which the soul of a
human being is the form or the structure of the
human body or the human matter.
Hylomorphism in philosophy metaphysical view according to which every
natural body consists of two intrinsic principles, one potential, namely,
primary matter, and one actual, namely, substantial form. It was the central
doctrine of Aristotle's philosophy of nature.
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ARISTOTLE
• Aristotle's concept of the self is
hylomorphic, that is, the self or the
human person is composed of body
and soul.
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The functional organization in virtue of which human beings are able

to perform their characteristic activities of life, including growth,
nutrition, reproduction, perception, imagination, desire, and thinking.
U N D E R S TA N D I N
G THE SELF

THANK
According to Aristotle

YOU
" Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom "

Presentation by Amer Abdullah

PSYCHOL OGY 2