Sensitive Soul
Scala naturae Aristotle’s description of nature as being arranged in a hierarchy from formless matter to the unmoved mover. In this grand design, the only thing higher than humans was the unmoved mover.
Sensitive soul According to Aristotle, the soul pos- sessed by animals. It includes the functions provided by the vegetative soul and provides the ability to interact with the environment and to retain the information gained from that interaction.
Socrates Disagreed with the Sophists’ contention that there is no discernible truth beyond individual opinion. Socrates believed that by examining a number of individual manifestations of a concept, the general concept itself could be defined clearly and precisely. These general definitions are sta- ble and knowable and, when known, generate moral behavior.
Solipsism The belief that a person’s subjective reality is the only reality that exists and can be known.
