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    It is not the case that The soul is best defined as 'something which moves itself'

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    • 1.Aristotle's hylomorphic framework defines soul as the first actuality of a natural body with the potential for life, not self-motion.
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    • 2.Self-motion is a property Aristotle explicitly reserves for animals, not the vegetative soul governing nutrition and growth.
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    • 3.A definition grounded in self-motion therefore excludes plant souls, violating the requirement to capture all instances of soul.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Unmoved movers, including Aristotle's divine intellect and Neoplatonic hypostases, produce motion without themselves moving, yet are paradigmatically soul-like or higher.
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    • 2.If the highest and most perfect principle of life and intellect is unmoved, then self-motion cannot serve as the essential differentiating mark of soul.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.The forms of spheres are souls
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    • 2.Sense perception is particular only to animals, not all ensouled things
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    • 3.Movement is common to all souls
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