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Single Idea 24040

[catalogued under 9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / a. Hylomorphism]

Full Idea

For a dialectician anger is a desire for retaliation or something like that, where for a natural scientist it is a boiling of the blood and hoot stuff around the heart. The scientist gives the matter, where the dialectician give the form and the account.

Gist of Idea

Scientists explain anger by the matter, dialecticians by the form and the account

Source

Aristotle (De Anima [c.329 BCE], 403a30)

A Reaction

A nice illumination of hylomorphism. Notice that the dialectician also give the account [logos].

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'De Anima (on the psuche)', ed/tr. Reeve, C.D.C. [Hackett 2017], p.4