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A 4 page paper which compares Aristotle's and Plato's views on the soul, as described in their works 'Nicomachean Ethics,' 'On the Soul,' 'The Republic' and 'Phaedo.' Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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origin and whether it is primarily a scientific or psychological concept. Certainly, Aristotle was a renaissance man, with equal interests in science and philosophy, and was fascinated how one
discipline influenced the other. According to Aristotle, the soul is not ethereal; it is based an influenced by the world and the human experience unique to each individual.
He maintained that the soul, or psyche, is "the life principle, the sum of the processes of life, the active principle of organization of these processes" (Titus and Smith 60).
Reason, which originates in the mind represents the soul functioning at maximum capacity (Titus and Smith 60). In other words, the man who possesses a good soul is
one who exercises reason and wisdom. As he explained in Nicomachean Ethics, "Human good turns out to be activity of soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are
more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete" (8). Aristotle contended that the soul was comprised of three components -- passions, faculties and character (Aristotle "Nicomachean
Ethics" 21). It is how man nurtures the soul and exercises control (temperance) over these components which establishes the quality of virtue. He further opined, "The soul is
inseparable from its body, or at any rate that certain parts of it are" (Aristotle "On the Soul" 21). Aristotles view of the soul was that it was a
psychic power ("On the Soul" 27) which received its power from the human body. In On the Soul, he explained, "The terms cause and source have many senses. But
the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a) the source or origin of movement, it is (b)
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