Form and Matter in Aristotle

Aristotle defines nature as "the root or stability of essential change" 1. Natural substances are animals, plants, and inanimate substances such as the earth, water, fire and air. According to Aristotle, each natural substance has its own properties, which is why it creates natural behavior / characteristics. As such, natural products are the essential principle / source of change 2 Therefore, natural products move, ie grow, improve quality, lose them, and eventually can die and die.

Aristotle and his teacher Plato and Platoist irreversibly broke the concept of universality and the concept of his pyloric diseases (substance is a kind of genetic inheritance). Aristotle's concept of homosexuality is different from the concept of Plato. Because he thinks that formats and problems are indivisible, that the problem and format do not exist separately but exist only together. The classic answer to Aristotle's real problem is real = matter + structure, so that the morphologicalism of a word itself consists of Greek Heil (substance or thing) and morpheme (shape or structure). Those without a structure are just confusions, a structure without a thing is just a ghost of existence.

Aristotle analyzes the problem from the viewpoint of format and problem. The format is an object, and the problem is its composition. The term "substance" used by Aristotle is neither the name of a substance nor the ultimate constituent of a particular object such as an atom (Aristotle will refuse Atomism). For a given type of object, "material" conforms to the role or function, that is, the role or function of the object, regardless of its name. In relation to the human body, the problem is meat and blood. The ax problem is the iron making the ax. Compared with elements, earth, fire, air, and water, substances are essentially characteristic "quality", which is the foundation of all substances.