The vegetative soul's proper functioning has physical health as its end; the animal soul's sensory and emotional functions achieve proper functioning (moral virtues) when appetites, desires, and emotions are in balance; the rational soul achieves proper functioning through intellectual virtues, which include practical wisdom and contemplative wisdom.

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if we're talking of the vegetative Soul vegetative life okay there the uh basic functions are nutrition and reproduction and good functioning in uh those regards have as their end physical health [14:42]

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A History of Philosophy | 14 Aristotle's Ethicswheatoncollege
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