2. ARISTOTLE
• The human person is a “rational
animal”
• Aristotle defines the soul as the
principle of life. Three levels of soul,
namely Vegetative soul, Sensitive
soul and Rational soul
• The self or the human person is a
composite of body and soul and that
two are inseparable.
3. • Aristotle concept of the self was
constructed in terms of hylomorphism.
• View the soul as the form of the human
body, Aristotle believes that the human
person is essentially body and soul.