PPT Slide
Ancient & Medieval Philosophy -- David L. Rouse
- Aristotle divides substances into the living and the non-living.
- Living substances are composite of form and matter, the soul being the form and actuality of the body.
“If, then, we have to give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first grade of actuality of a natural organized body. That is why we can wholly dismiss as unnecessary the question whether the soul and the body are one: it is as meaningless as to ask whether the wax and the shape given to it by the stamp are one, or generally the matter of a thing and that of which it is the matter.…”