The “Body” In Aristotle’s Theory Of The Psyche

Psyche is an important topic of ancient Greek philosophy and the salvation of psyche is one of the themes throughout the Western Philosophy. Meanwhile, the psyche in philosophy is not equivalent to the concept of the meaning of soul, which also possesses multiple meanings such as the life, mind, nous and so on that all adds psyche study difficulty. The body and the psyche as the corresponding concept also have different stages of development. In ancient Greece at the early stage of the psyche and the body through similar to the subsequent separation and opposites until Aristotle reintegrate the two concepts together. As the most important philosopher in ancient Greek, Aristotle studied the topic of soul in <De Anima>. Due to cultural factors, there are not enough attentions on the theory of Psyche. And it’s scarce to research through the point of "body". However, according to Aristotle’s theory of Psyche and metaphysics, we can make many analysis of the “body” in Aristotle’s theory of psyche. <De Anima> studied the life through the view of psyche and body. The most important is what’ the psyche and the function of psyche in it. Adhering to the research method of Aristotle himself, The article starting from sorting the point of psyche before Aristotle and attempts to resort the point of view of Aristotle’s theory of the psyche through “the body”, discuss the meaning of which "body" in the Aristotelian concept through several aspects such as Aristotle metaphysics basis analysis, methods of research psyche, relationships between psyche and body as well as realization of the body’s functions.