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It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

Happiness, Exercise, Soul

Aristotle, Harris Rackham (1962). “The Nicomachean ethics”

But then in what way are things called good? They do not seem to be like the things that only chance to have the same name. Are goods one then by being derived from one good or by all contributing to one good, or are they rather one by analogy? Certainly as sight is in the body, so is reason in the soul, and so on in other cases.

Sight, Names, Soul

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1733, Princeton University Press

The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.

Animal, Soul, Special

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.146, Wordsworth Editions

If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.

Men, Soul, Good Man

"Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1098a,

Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation.

Two, Soul, Movement

Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, p.1060, Catholic Way Publishing

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Home, Two, Soul

For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

Men, Soul, Lovers

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.495, Simon and Schuster

All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.

Soul, Digestion, Produce

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.40, Aeterna Press

... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

Men, Perfect, Soul

The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.

Soul, Intellectual, Truth Is

Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.

Men, Two, Soul

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Philosophical, Insanity, Soul

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved.

Class, Soul, Moral

Aristotle, Harris Rackham (1926). “The Nicomachean ethics”

The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart.

Lying, Heart, Soul

Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.

Two, Soul, Two Souls

The soul is the cause or source of the living body. The terms cause and source have many senses. But the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a) the source or origin of movement, it is (b) the end, it is (c) the essence of the whole living body.

Essence, Soul, Three

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.37, Aeterna Press

Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.

War, Class, Soul

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2115, Princeton University Press

We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.

Thinking, Psychics, Soul

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.33, Aeterna Press

Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other, not having a rational principle in itself, is able to obey such a principle. And we call a man in any way good because he has the virtues of these two parts.

Men, Two, Soul

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2115, Princeton University Press

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

Soul, Mind, Impossible

So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.

Giving, Soul, Body

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

Soul, Division, Common

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.23, Wordsworth Editions

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