This man argued that a "nutritive" faculty exists even in the souls of plants.
This man argued that a "nutritive" faculty exists even in the souls of plants. He put "polity," a type of mixed constitutional regime whose "perversion" is democracy, among a triad of ideal regimes. This man introduced the idea of telos, a purpose for each object which he also called the "final cause". The Muslim thinker Averroes wrote commentaries on this man, who wrote that virtues are the mean between two extremes. This man lectured on catharsis, the release of emotions one gets watching tragedy, at his school, the Lyceum. For 10 points, name this author of Metaphysics, Poetics, and Nicomachean Ethics, who tutored Alexander the Great and studied under Plato.
This man argued that a "nutritive" faculty exists even in the souls of plants.
Aristotle of Stagira [or Aristoteles] 