My wife is really sick, so I don't have much time to devote to the blog this afternoon. I hope between our class and Schwab's lecture you're a bit less intimidated by Aristotle. (Don't forget the forum Friday at 11:00 if you want to ask him a question.)
But... I encourage the groups who didn't have their question answered during class today to post it here, and I will reply later tonight or tomorrow morning.
And I definitely owe you guys a post about "qua."
REMINDERS
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-Read Course Guide 26-27
-Read On the Soul from start to finish
-Bring your Ideas Draft to class on Friday... we will be doing more writing exercises
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What happens, according to Aristotle, to the soul when the body dies?
Hannah, that's a good question. We know what Plato thinks... he thinks the soul is imperishable, and outlasts the body after death. Aristotle says that every soul has to be embodied and every body has to be ensouled. Thus the soul should perish with the body. But he also sometimes talks about the soul being LESS perishable than the body (see the bottom of pg. 164). Schwab seemed pretty sure that Aristotle was a skeptic about a post-corporeal (after the body) afterlife, and I'm inclined to agree.
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