(Considerations upon human nature in Aristotle’s thought)

  • José Javier Benéitez Prudencio Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_RESF.2011.v36.n1.37629
Keywords: Aristotle, human being, ‘soul’ (psychế), body, functionalism, citizen, homonymy

Abstract

Aristotle says that only humans can speak and the speech capability is a proper criterion of humanity. Speech is also designated by Aristotle to indicate the right and the wrong. He finishes by saying that it is partnership in these things that makes a city. Ultimately a human being who is not in a polis, would not really be a human being at all? Would this human being then be no more human than a statue with a human form?

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Benéitez Prudencio J. J. (2012). (Considerations upon human nature in Aristotle’s thought). Revista de Filosofía , 36(1), 7-28. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_RESF.2011.v36.n1.37629
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Vol. 36 No. 1 (2011)
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