On the Soul

Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. Aristotle is considered as one of the most important people in creating Western philosophy. Aristotle's writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality, aesthetics, logic, science, politics, and metaphysics. His treaties On the Soul centers on the kinds of souls possessed by different kinds of living things, distinguished by their different operations. He believed that the possession of soul is what makes an organism an organism at all. The notion of a body without a soul, or of a soul in the wrong kind of body, is unintelligible. He talks about many different aspects about what the soul could be. Aristotle also presents the idea that the soul could be one thing or that it could be expressed as being the parts that make up a whole.