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Conclusion: Hylomorphic Psychology as a Dualism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2019

Jason W. Carter
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University of Edinburgh
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In the conclusion, I assess the contribution that Aristotle’s criticisms of earlier Greek psychology make towards establishing a science of soul, in the sense of justifying, and helping us to understand better, the Hylomorphic Thesis, the Efficient-Final Causal Thesis, the Non-Uniformity Thesis, the Part-Hood Thesis, and the Separability Thesis. These results, I argue, show that Aristotle’s hylomorphic psychology is best understood as a dualistic one, which affirms that plants and non-human animals are constituted by interdependent substances and that human beings are constituted by one dependent substance, the body, and one independent one, the rational soul.
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Aristotle on Earlier Greek Psychology
The Science of Soul
, pp. 219 - 227
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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