{"id":19230,"date":"2024-04-03T18:55:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T18:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/what-does-plato-think-the-soul-is-what-does-aristotle-say-that-it-is-which-account-do-you-find-more-persuasive-and-why\/"},"modified":"2024-04-03T18:55:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T18:55:37","slug":"what-does-plato-think-the-soul-is-what-does-aristotle-say-that-it-is-which-account-do-you-find-more-persuasive-and-why","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/what-does-plato-think-the-soul-is-what-does-aristotle-say-that-it-is-which-account-do-you-find-more-persuasive-and-why\/","title":{"rendered":"What does Plato think the soul is? What does Aristotle say that it is? Which account do you find more persuasive, and why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plato believes the soul is not the body, he can only say: soul is not composite, never changing, not mortal.<\/p>\n<p>Aristotle believes the soul is the form of the body having life potentially in it &#8211; the first grade of actuality of a natural organized body<br \/>\n-essence of a natural body<br \/>\n-inseparable from the body<\/p>\n<p>I side with Plato because I feel that our soul separates and rises to the heavens once we die.<\/p>\n<p>Quotes to use:<br \/>\n\u201cAre they ever the same and in the same state, or do they vary from one time to another\u201d (Phaedo d78, Pg. 117)<br \/>\n\u201cIf the soul exists before, it must as it comes to life and birth, come from nowhere else than death and being dead\u201d (Phaedo d77, Pg. 116)<br \/>\n\u201cOne part of ourselves is the body, another part is the soul\u201d (Phaedo d79, Pg. 117)<br \/>\n\u201cOur souls existed apart from the body before they took human form, and they had intelligence\u201d (Phaedo c76, Pg. 115)<br \/>\n\u201cWhen a man dies, his soul is dispersed and this is the end of its existence\u201d (Phaedo b77, Pg. 115)<\/p>\n<p>Make the thesis similar to this: I stand strongly with the opinion of Plato\u2019s because of religious beliefs and how death becomes the separation of the soul from the body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plato believes the soul is not the body, he can only say: soul is not composite, never changing, not mortal. Aristotle believes the soul is the form of the body having life potentially in it &#8211; the first grade of actuality of a natural organized body -essence of a natural body -inseparable from the body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[56],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/19230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/19230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=19230"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=19230"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=19230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}