Ancient Greeks Flashcards
Rationalism
The belief that human reason is the primary source of our knowledge of the world
Empiricism
All knowledge of the world derives form senses
World of the forms
A concept with forms
Theory of the forms
A world full of the immutable and eternal
Form of the good
The most important and top form that participates in every form
Concept/ideal
The inmate, idea of and object
Phenomena/ particular
An object in the material world, reflecting the forms
Form (Aristotle)
Structure and characteristics
Material cause
Describes the matter or substance
Efficient cause
Describes the process of something coming into existence
Formal cause
Describes how we know what something is
Final cause
It describes the telos of an object and why it is there
Prime mover
The final cause of movement and change
Telos
Purpose
Motus
Change
