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Philosophy of "the self" (Aristotle)

 The Human Person is a "Rational Animal". The human person is simply an animal that thinks.

The soul is the principle of life.

All living being have souls.

Plants, animals, and humans have souls.

There are three levels of souls. Vegetative soul, Sensitive soul,  and Rational soul. 

The vegetative soul is found in plants.

Sensitive soul and Rational soul are found in animals and humans.

Plants have souls because they posses the 3 requirement to be a living being. Grow, reproduce, and feed itself.

The vegetative soul reproduces, grow, and feed it self. A sensitive soul is capable of all that plus sensation. Rational souls are capable of everything plus thinking and this is only present in humans.

That explains why he thinks that humans are just animals that thinks.

Aristotles Concept of the soul is that the human person is not a soul distinct from the body. It's a composite of body and soul and that the two are inseperable.