Aristotle's View On The Body

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Plato believed that a soul transmigrated until it was able to free from a physical form and returned to being real without the body, but without really being sure. Aristotle also believed in a soul but he maintained that the human soul was unique do to the ability to know what was going on. He would teach that the physical body had dismissed its true self and that the soul would move around until such time as it became aware of its true self once again and freed itself from the physical body. He also taught that there were two parts to human reasoning passive and creative. The part that was a bit of an imagination or to get creative was the spiritual part and the passive part was the physical point of view. Aristotle mentioned that philosophy …show more content…
It comes from religious values which is contradictory as most religions advise their followers to not judge people. When I judge people- such as the 3 in the example- it accompanies hate towards them and their actions whereby the first lot of examples: How could I hate a girl who's sluttish or even think that I am better then her etc...my actions would rather be in guiding her rather than judging her in this negative way. Most people do not know how to do this because they believe everything they do or say is right and if other people don't follow it's because they less of the person. This created separation, more insecurity and many other things- all for the reason of judging and not being able to decipher deeper human feelings. The girl might dress that way because of some emotional problems, insecurity etc. But now if the same girl killed another one because of this. Or someone rapes a person. Then there is room to judge. It usually is not acceptable because we live in a very diverse world, with people of all colors, races, ethnic groups, religions, cultural backgrounds, geographical places, and so judging them without knowing them I think is not acceptable. One does not know where someone else came from, how they grew up, where they grew up or why they may believe a certain way or act a certain way. Whether or not you approve of a person's lifestyle or whatever, you do not have the right to judge them or to think you are superior to them. People just do not understand others that are different from them. "We suppose ourselves to possess unqualified scientific knowledge of a thing, as opposed to knowing it in the accidental way in which the sophist knows, when we think that we know the cause on which the fact depends, as the cause of that fact and of no other, and, further, that the fact could not be other than it is. Now that scientific knowing is something of this sort
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