Examines the nature of life, discusses form, matter, potentiality, and realization, and includes information on the background and themes of the work. Bibliogs For Plato the soul was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to inhabit. In 'De Anima', Plato's student, Aristotle sought to set out his theory of soul as the ultimate reality of embodied form and produced a masterpiece of philosophical insight.
