Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist who founded the Lyceum, a school of learning based in Athens. He studied under Plato and later taught Alexander the Great. According to Aristotle, man is composed of both body and soul, with the soul being divided into the vegetative, sensitive, and rational parts. The soul gives life and form to the material body.

3. • His father was physician to the king of
Macedonia.
• When he was 7, he went to study at
Plato’s Academy.
• Student of Plato and teacher of
Alexander the Great.
• Aristotle founded the Lyceum, a
school of learning based in Athens,
Greece.

4. Aristotle’s dictum of man:

6. - A material
entity which has
a potential for
life. – acts as the
perfect
realization of
the body

7. Body can posses life when it is united with the soul

8. ◙ According to Aristotle man
is a single essencecomposed
of:

9. Aristotle's distinction between
MATTER and FORM:
Form =
cat
Matter =
Fur
• Body and soul are inseparable.

10. Vegetative
Sensitive
Rational

11. Vegetative
It feeds itself
It grows
It reproduces
Sensitive
It feeds itself
It grows
It reproduce
It has feelings
Rational

12. Zeno of Citium
(344–262 BC)
Chrysippus of Soli
(279 - 206 BC)Lucius Annaeus
Seneca (often
known simply
as Seneca) (ca. 4
BC – 65 AD)
Marcus Aurelius
Antoninus Augustus
(121–180)Antisthenes
(445 BC – 365 BC)

13. Seven
Parts• Five Senses
• Power of Speech
• Power of Production

14. ◘ Emotions are movements againt’s
nature.
• Human nature is part of a
determined universe.

15. • Why should
man conform
himself with
nature?
• Why should
man be
virtous?
• Why should
man submit
himself to
God’s will?

16. • A Virtous man always strives to possess peace
of mind
- God’s
ways are not
man’s.

17. Man Organism Organs
Vegetative
Soul
Vegetative
Organism
Sensient
Soul
Sensient
Organism
Rational
Soul
Rational
Organism
Issue of Soul