Aristolte Chapter 3

Question 1

Key people

Answer 1

Aristotle
Plato
Hume
Religious believers

Question 2

What was Aristotle’s view

Answer 2

He was an empiricist

Question 3

How does he argue we find knowledge and understanding

Answer 3

Knowledge is learnt, through practice in more than one way. Not innate

Understanding by observing the world, per genus et per differentia and reflective categorisation

Question 4

How does his view compare to Plato’s

Answer 4

A= empiricist P= rationalist 
A= observation P= another realm
A= knowledge not innate P= innate

Question 5

What are the 4 causes

Answer 5

Material
Formal
Efficient
Final

Question 6

What is the prime mover and it’s characteristics

Answer 6

Aristotle’s God
Perfect, ever - lasting and transcendent
Co- eternal with the world
Not a creator but brings about change

Question 7

Compare prime mover and Plato’s form of the good

Answer 7

Both not directly or personally concerned with the word
Neither created it
FoG explains goodness and beauty
PM explains change

Question 8

Objections summary 6

Answer 8

Contradiction- universe doesn’t not have efficient cause
Efficient cause only names change doesn’t explain
We give inanimate objects final chase
Fallacy of composition
Many reasons for change
Against Christian belief of God

Question 9

What was Humes idea and why was Aristotle interested?

Answer 9

Cause and effect, X causes Y

But Aristotle wanted to know why X causes Y and why X and Y not Z