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(Eth. Wic 10, 8; 1178b, 20) (Op. cit. 10: 8, 9; 1179). (Wm. Turner's History of Philosophy, p.
141–143; B D. Alexander, History of Phil. p. 102–103; Zeller's History of Philosophy, p. 221;
Roger's History of Philosophy, p. 109). (Aristotle's Physics II, I, 192b 14) (De Caelo, I, 4, 271a,
33). (De Part. An. IV, 2, 677a 15). (Aristotle's Physics II, 8, 199). (B. D. Alexander's Hist. of
Phil. p. 104). (De Generatione Animalium, IV, 4, 7706, 9).

VII. The doctrine of the soul.

The soul is not merely a harmony of the body or the blending of opposites. It is neither the four
elements nor their compound, for it transcends all material conditions. The soul and body are not
two distinct things: but one in two different aspects, i.e., just as form is related to matter.

The soul is the power which a living body possesses, and it is the end for which the body exists,
i.e., the final cause of its existence.

While the soul which is the radical principle of life, is one, yet it has several faculties. Those
faculties are: (1) Sensitive (2) Rational (3) Nutritive (4) Appetitive (5) Locomotive.

Of these, the sensitive and the rational are the most important: sensation being the faculty by
means of which the forms of sen'sible things are received, just as impression is made as by a
seal; and intelligent knowledge being the faculty by means of which intellectual knowledge is
acquired. It is the seat of ideas only, it does not create them, since knowledge comes through the
senses. (B. D. Alexander's History of Philosophy, p. 105–106). (Wm. Turner's History of
Philosophy, p. 147–153). (Zeller's History of Philosophy, p 201–204).

(iii) Summary of Conclusions

A. His Doctrines.

1. The doctrine of Being (To on).

By declaring the attributes of Being as (a) actuality or the determining principle, and (b)
potentiality or the indeterminate principle: Aristotle attempted to explain Reality in terms of the
principle of opposites.

But this principle was used not only by the Pythagoreans, Parmenides, and Democritus in a
similar manner but also by Socrates in his attempt to prove the immortality of the soul, and by
Plato who saw reality as the concept of things as distinguished from the things themselves: as the
noumena as distinct from phenomena, and as the real, distinct from the unreal.

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