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Question

“…we take the human function to be a certain kind of life, and take this life to be activity and actions of the soul that involve reason; hence the function of the excellent man (the eudaimon) is to do this well and finely.” (Aristotle; Classics, 245)"

Answer 1

Aristotle believes that reason is the essence of being human, and that human beings express themselves by using their reason in everyday activity in a society.

Using his method of defining the essence of what being is in terms of genus (general character) and differentia (the differentiating factor within a class), human beings are active, social beings (thus in a class with other social animals, such as monkeys, certain birds, certain insects) uniquely differentiated from others in this class by their possession fo reason and by the capability of honing their reason (rational development through thought and experience).

This underlines Aristotle's Ethics and his Politics, two of his greatest tractates.