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What is form according to Vinzons?
Form is the principle which actualizes a thing and makes a thing what it is.
What is matter according to Vinzons?
Matter is the potentiality to receive a form.
What is the primary composition of a being according to Aristotle?
Form and matter.
What is the relationship between form and matter?
Form is the act and matter is its potency, inseparable in a being.
Why is the process of act and potency inseparable?
Because all beings have their own potentials and an actual existence.
What does Aristotle's concept of the human person manifest?
Limitations and possibilities at the same time.
According to Aristotle, what are the three functions of the soul?
Nutrition, sensation, and intellection.
What does the nutritive essence explain about a human person?
That sooner or later, we'll be like plants in the food chain.
What happens to the body when a human person dies according to the text?
It can no longer be called a human but just a cadaver, incapable of the other essences.
What makes a human person both limited and with potentials according to the text?
The body's mortality and the soul's ability to shape possibilities.
Explore the concepts of form and matter according to Aristotle and Vinzons, and how they shape the nature of a being. Understand the principles of actualization and potentiality in this philosophical perspective.
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