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The Place Of Man In Aristotle: The Basis Of Man’s Life Crisis
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line still, Freud is one of the greatest theoretician on man, who with
some psychological bent envisaged the conflicting existence in man,
thereby defining man as a component of two instincts: death and life
instincts. With all these views above, we can easily see with Soren
Kierkegaard that the human being which Aristotle structures becomes one
which would be formed fully from disagreement, clash or dissension. The
question now could be: between the body and the soul, which is so
antithetically opposed to the other and which excludes the other to be
united, in order to form the personal self. Moreover, the contemporary
opinion of the present day thinkers against exaggerated dualism is that
both are phenomenal forms of an unknown
[1] B. Russel; Has Man A future? ( Britain: Penguin Books, 1961), p.9
[2] B. Mondin; Philosophical Anthropology, (Rome: Urban University Press, 1985) p. 26
[3] The New Jerusalem Bible, Pocket Edition,Gen. 2:7
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The soul for philosophers, especially Aristotle is a principle of life
,an animator of the inanimate, a cause of life. Thus, it corresponds
with Mondin’s assertion
[4] Op Cit. p. 141.
[5] F. Copleston; A History of Western Philosophy, vol. 1 (New York: Continuum Books, 1962), p. 330.
[6] Ibid. p 326.
[7] T. de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, (New York: Harper Row Publ. 1959). P. 177.
[8] E.S Stumpf, Philosophy; History and Problems, (USA: Mc Graw-Hill Inc.,1994), P.11
[9] Ibid p. 24.
[10] S.I Udoidem, Concept of Nature in Aristotle’s Physics,BK 11, Accademia, Owerri, vol.1 no.1, June,2003, p.11
[11] Ibid.
[12] Ibid.
[13] F. Copleston, History of Western Philosophy, vol. 1, p. 327.
16 Mondin, Op. Cit.p.19
17 Ibid. p.20
18 S.E Stumpf, Op. cit, p.101
19 G.F Krychede, Reflection on Man, (New York: Georgeton Univ. Press,1965),p.414
20 H. Renard, Philosophy of Man, (Milwaukee: Bruce Press Co.,1948),p.2
21 W. Warburton, Philosophy: The Classics, 2nd ed.(London:Routledge,2001),p.222
22 J. Endres, Op. Cit.,p.144
23 Ibid.
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