Aristotle

Question 1

What did Aristotle say the two states of being are?

Answer 1

Potentiality- the possibility of doing/becoming something

Actuality- when potential is achieved

Question 2

What is telos?

Answer 2

Our purpose- act to an end

Question 3

How do we reach our final form?

Answer 3

Needs to be actualised by one of the four causes

Question 4

What are the four causes?

Answer 4

• Material (matter/substance)
• efficient (cause of object existing)
• formal (what gives it form/stricture)
• final (the function/ telos)

Question 5

What are the four causes?

Answer 5

• Material (matter/substance)
• efficient (cause of object existing)
• formal (what gives it form/stricture)
• final (the function/ telos)

Question 6

How does the formal cause link to Plato?

Answer 6

The recognised characteristic is not a characteristic but rather the ideal form

Question 7

What does Aristotle say the most important cause is?

Answer 7

The final cause- it’s the purpose and how we know it it actualised or not

Question 8

What does Aristotle believe our telos is?

Answer 8

Eudaimonia by staying virtuous

Question 9

How does the formal cause change?

Answer 9

If something undergoes irreversible change like being burnt- the formal cause describes new being