Aristotle's systematic account of the soul (psyche) as the first actuality of a natural body that has the potential for life — a hylomorphic theory that makes the soul the functional organization of a living body.
The soul is not a separate substance (contra Plato) but the form of a living body — what makes a living thing alive. Hierarchical soul: nutritive (all living things), sensitive (animals), rational (humans). The active intellect is separate, unmixed, and immortal.
No conceptual lineage found.
No recorded contemporaries.
No recorded minds influenced.
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