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On the Soul

by Aristotle

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Aristotle’s “On the Soul” is a major philosophical work that discusses the concept of the soul and its relation to the body. Aristotle claims that the soul is the form, or essence, of a living being and is not a separate substance from the body it inhabits. He categorizes the soul into different kinds, with plants having the simplest souls, capable only of nutrition and reproduction.

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Aristotle

Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and tutor to Alexander the Great. His writings on ethics, politics, logic, and poetics · including the Nicomachean Ethics and Poetics · shaped Western thought for centuries.