Aristotle's Theory of Substance

In Aristotle's theory of substance, things looked relatively simple. The most fundamental sort of being was a particular substance like socrates or hiawatha. But now with our new distinction between matter and form, we can analyze the situation further. There is still the substance with its features, for instance, socrates who is a man in the market place badgering hapless athenians. But the substance itself is further divided into matter and form.