Podcast at knowledge for Men

                           Podcast at knowledge for Men

That we should live like wild animals is also a great motto.According to Aristotle,we just ARE   animals, albeit Rational ones.But in light of evolutionary history,we now know we may not be currently living in accordance with what is normal for our species.Such deviations are likely to negatively impact the physiological underpinnings of our vegetive,perceptual and rational souls, and thus in turn to have a negative impact on the souls themselves.

For Aristotle,the human being is not a pseudo-entity, reducible to an "immaterial soul-substance" plus a "machine-body"; that is a Cartesian and Platonistic notion.Instead, for Aristotle,the human being is a basic substance,and the soul is,categorially speaking,a non substance,a Capacity;specially,the soul is the capacity of a living human being(a biological substance) for growth,reproduction,sensation,perception,volition, reason,etc.These species-normal capacities define us as the kind of beings we are.

I think it is conceivable that an Aristotelian ontology could be coherently united with the practice of Christianity,understood,e.g., along Tolstoyian or Kierkegaardian lines,(see "Practice in Christianity"by Anti-Climcaus"),but Aristotelian ontology is hard to reconcile with the preferred ontology of Christian theology,which tends to be Cartesian-Platonistic.                  

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