IS THERE ANY KIND OF REAL PARTICIPATION IN ARISTOTLE? DOUBLE RATIONALITY IN THE SOUL'S POTENCIES IN NIC. ET. A 13

After highlighting Aristotle's rejection of Platonic participation in the world of Ideas and distinguishing between a logical and a metaphysical use of the notion of participation, this study focuses on Nicomachean Ethics A 13, which presents a different kind of participation different from those previously identified, characterized by an explicit and insistent use of the vocabulary of participation, with a precise and consistent meaning. It refers to a real participation, in which the appetitive powers of the soul partake in a perfection proper to rationality, by virtue of which they can be configured to a higher order, with greater autonomy than that of the body in relation to the soul, and in varying degrees.