With the theory of the tripartite soul, Plato separates the soul into its three components; Appetite, Honour and Reason, suggestion every …show more content…
or to their existence, if they are not inherit in the objects which they are said to participate in their being... It would appear impossible for an essence to be separate from that of which it is the essence. How then can the Forms be essence when they exist apart? ”
I personally agree with the idea that the essence of something must be something that is contained within said something. However, perhaps when we refer to a subject we refer to its concept and then that essence is and essential component of the description of said concept. This is the only way I could see the forms standing outside of the particular object t it made reference to
According to Aristotle the nature of reality is substance; the subjects of predicates and yet not the predicate of anything. These substances also predicate time, as there needs to be something there that is changing or marking the change. We can predict characteristic on primary substances, but such things as the raw materials of substances are not in fact substances until they take the form of some larger concept. He further states that a substance can be equated with its essence. The “substance without matter” or the concept or idea the substance is associated with holds the essence of the substance then. As it follows, not every material thing or element would have an essence. However, as it would follow, wouldn’t the make up of these permanent things