| Two Conceptions of Physis in Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics (8268 words) |
 | physis is thus introduced: in what follows, he gives a kind of reduction of secondary instances of nature to a primary instance which is “substance.” According to the terms of the reductive analysis, “substance” is mentioned in each of the secondary definitions of nature, showing that substance is logically presupposed by the other notions. |
| physis in relation to moral virtue is two-fold: one must be human and not another kind of animal, and second, one must have a certain kind of body and a certain kind of soul. |
| physis in the practical works: where he speaks about the moral capacities of free men, “nature” figures as a first level potentiality able to be formed by right practice; in the cases of free women and slaves, “nature” figures as a fixed disposition that precludes being informed by right practice. |
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