When we talk about Aristotle’s we talk about one of the most important and complete philosophers of all times, he was rationalist, because he said that all can be explained by reason. Aristotle lived in an epoch when the situation started to be more interesting, like more wars and conflicts, when the society need a change after a period of calm and with no much new things.

Aristotle is the third of three consecutive great philosophers, they where Socrates and Plato. So he was influenced by these guys and them ideas, but not only in the way to continue a theory or propose, but also to criticize it and expouse a new theory of it. The one that influence more to Aristotle was Plato because he was Aristotle teacher and master; Plato put all kind of ideas in Aristotle head about many things like reality or society. But the difference is that Aristotle think in more implications of different theories like the soul propose.

He porpoise a new way to see and understand the society and the human and its behavior. He talks about many things like matter and form, he said that the form is what meters because it performs a determinate function and it doesn’t matter the composition of that object, because it always is going to realize the same function.
Aristotle also talks about the soul, this is important because he is trying to explain the mind and all body functions. He said that soul is something immaterial, independent of the body and capable of surviving its death, but anyway the soul always is going to need the body because it works like a container, the soul needs the body to express to transmit psychic functions.

Aristotle said that we are political animals, because we need and must live in a political community and have relations with other persons called citizens in the polis, he said that we depend of the polis, that a man only can be perfect in a polis because is the only environment in which we can develop our virtues. He also talks about ethics; he said that Ethics is the inquiry into the human good, the good for human beings. The human good is eudaimonia that is the good for all, is what we can do for society by using our virtues.
So Aristotle is a very important man and philosopher for us because he was the one that influence many other philosophers and his theories and porpoises of society, human and all that it implies keep in time and represent a very important way of see us and how we interact although it was in a totally different time and circumstances.

Is the soul a product of body functions?

Is the soul a product of body functions?
In the time of Aristotle the human soul was all, was something immaterial, independent of the body and capable of surviving its death, it can represent all we are and how we are. The body was only the way to transmit all these like the thought, the reason; psychic functions like emotions, memory, or breathing. The capacity of living things is represented by the soul and trough the body.
So the soul is maybe the most important part of us but without a body it can’t work. That is what make us special because is a combination of both, is an organism that work in a determinate way. The soul and the body can’t work without the other. So we can say that the soul is not a product of body functions; the body is the product of soul orders, or capacities.
But with our actual technology we know that the brain is the responsible of all these processes, and we don’t have information about the existence of a soul, we steel haven’t see or feel it, although some people are totally convinced that we have a soul, but with religious purposes. we don´t know yet if there is a soul but in the future we maybe discover somethink.

Plato and his thougths

Plato was a man born in Athens. When he was young, he starts to follow Socrates classes, and then he became a disciple.
Plato was very influenced by Socrates because he was the master of argumentation and also he has revolutionary ideas about society, life, order… this create interest and an obsession in Plato, and after the dead of his master Plato starts to writing about Socrates, his live, his thoughts…

Plato decide to continue with Socrates ideas but with in a different way. Plato start talking about reality, he is the one of the firsts in question reality, he do this with the story of the cave, it talk about the truth of reality, and that some people after they go outside the cave they came in again and try to convince the others that in the outside all is different and beauty but nobody want changes because they produce fear in people.

One of the ideas Plato was that all we perceive is false, is a copy reflected by the hyper Uranus this image of reality is projected by the hyper Uranus then it pass through the Uranus and it can be seen in the Gaia where all we are. These shows us the Eros vs psyche confront, eros the reflection, the outside and psyche the mind and soul, the reason. So he is trying to said that the world can be only be perceived by using the reason and this can be truth in some way because to analyze the world you have to use the reason if you don’t you never can be capable to understand anything, he is very important for all of us because they ideas was controversial and innovator and through the time they persist and influence us in the society and type of thought we have.