Philosophy on the Way to Ecology Part II

"In Aristotle's writings, for instance, while plants are endowed with a vegetal soul (which enables nourishment, growth, and reproduction), and while animals possess, in addition to the vegetal soul, an animal soul (which provides sensation and locomotion), these souls remain inseparable from the earthly world of generation and decay. Humans, however, possess along with these other souls a rational soul, or intellect, which alone provides access to the less corruptible spheres and has affinities with the divine 'Unmoved Mover' himself." -David Abram from The Spell of the Sensuous

I like the thought of layering the three different variations of souls over one another. On the inside every living thing has a vegetal soul, and then over top of that animals have an animal soul and even on top of that humans possess a rational soul. I made a type of flip book to show the plant on the first layer, an animal on the second layer, and then a human on the third layer.

First Layer

Second Layer

Third Layer