In five pages this report applies Aristotle's philosophical views within the context of human reproduction as illustrated in the second book of Physics. One source is cited in the bibliography.
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Human Reproduction for - March 2001 -- for more information on using this paper properly! Introduction
There are several fundamental aspects of Aristotles philosophy that the student should be aware of when researching Aristotles views as applied to human reproduction. According to Aristotle (384 -322
BCE), the human soul is made up of rational and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is common to every creature. The other
non-rational element is the basis of desire or the appetite. This aspect can be trained or persuaded to obey the second element of the soul, the reason. The fact that
the desiring capability can be persuaded to obey means that it has its own type of reason. Therefore, the rational faculty of the soul, the part that is able to
understand and to know, is also composed of two parts. One of those parts has the ability to reason about things within itself, and understand mathematics and other theoretical sciences.
The other part listens to reason "as one would listen to a father." Aristotle asserted that there was no absolute, objectively, existing moral standard. This fact should be kept
in mind in any discussion regarding what Aristotle believed about human birth, the existence of the fetus as either a potential or an actual person, where it comes from, and
whether or not the human cells of reproduction are potential persons. Keep in mind, whether a certain kind of behavior was moral or not depended on the type of action