ARISTOTLE ON THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PLANTS, ANIMALS, AND HUMAN BEINGS AND ON THE ELEMENTS AS INSTRUMENTS OF THE SOUL (DE ANIMA 2.4.415b18)

摘要

The soul-principle in the seed of the male specimen of a particular kind of living creature is therefore both connected with and suited to the material substance of the seed, which in any case contains vital heat pneuma, in the sublunary sphere an analogue of the astral ether.11 This material substance of the male seed is matched, in turn, by the menstrual fluid of the female partner, which bears the soul-principle from the moment of fertilization.12 Manifestation of the vital functions of a certain living creature is therefore only possible in combination with the suitable "natural body" that receives the soul. Since the Moon, as it appears, has a share in the fourth degree of remove, ...