Aristotle believed that animals and humans both had a similar 'soul', a certain property of living objects. This idea was relatively new and different at the time. Plato, the teacher of Aristotle and a contemporary philosopher of his, saw humans as having a divine soul linked to the forms (see Plato's Forms). Aristotle thought differently, applying the concept of the soul to all anmals, plants and humans as a broad characteristic which defines life. Animals and humans were fundamentaly the same in this way to Aristotle, but of course humans had a much greater capacity to reason
Do you mean contrast rather than compare? A contrast would be that humans are distinct from animals as a consequence of their rational nature. A comparison might be that both humans and animals are animated by a a life giving principle called a soul.
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Aristotle believed that animals and humans both had a similar 'soul', a certain property of living objects. This idea was relatively new and different at the time. Plato, the teacher of Aristotle and a contemporary philosopher of his, saw humans as having a divine soul linked to the forms (see Plato's Forms). Aristotle thought differently, applying the concept of the soul to all anmals, plants and humans as a broad characteristic which defines life. Animals and humans were fundamentaly the same in this way to Aristotle, but of course humans had a much greater capacity to reason
Do you mean contrast rather than compare? A contrast would be that humans are distinct from animals as a consequence of their rational nature. A comparison might be that both humans and animals are animated by a a life giving principle called a soul.