Aristotle and the Soul

We all know that Plato believed in the immortality of the soul (Theory of Forms).

But while Aristotle believed in the soul, he parted ways with Plato on its nature. For him the soul was directly connected to the body, or else it would just fly into a chair, and the chair would come alive.

But what did Aristotle think of the destiny of the soul?

Dissipation or a final destiny?

Sorry, bad news if you’re an Aristotle fan: he’s dissipated, rather than transmigrated.

Plato’s theory of the tri-partite soul is much better anyway :stuck_out_tongue:

We dont’ need Aristotle :evilfun:

Plato and Aristotle both conceived the Soul in terms of representation, ie. as like, shadows, pictures, writing, etc…
Plato, like the majority of Western philosophers since, stressed dualistic relation between the represented and representing. Mind represents the material world, including the body – and therefore must be independent and separate from it.
Aristotle stressed the relation between a representation and the medium which embodies it: text in ink-and-paper, or on a computer screen, etc…
The mind is the ‘form’, or as we would say a function, of the body.
Plato and Aristotle were both right.