Aristotle

Question 1

When and where was Aristotle born?

Answer 1

384 BC in Thrace

Question 2

What subjects did Aristotle teach?

Answer 2

Rhetoric
Poetry
Ethics

Question 3

Aristotle was the most famous alumni of what school?

Answer 3

Plato

Question 4

What book did Aristotle name after his son?

Answer 4

Nicomachean ethics

Question 5

What is the name of Aristotle’s most famous pupil?

Answer 5

Alexander the Great

Question 6

What did Alexander the Great get from his mentor Aristotle?

Answer 6

A passion for unity

Question 7

What was the name and nickname of Aristotle’s school?

Answer 7

The Lyceum

The peripatetic school (walking around school)

Question 8

What happened to Aristotle toward the end of his life?

Answer 8

He was charged with impiety and he fled to challeis where he died a year later of natural causes

Question 9

What word is used to describe Aristotle’s view of logic

Answer 9

Organon

Question 10

What is the difference between an argument and a statement?

Answer 10

Statements are true or false

Argument are valid or invalid

Question 11

The chief principle of logic is what?

Answer 11

The law of non contradiction

Question 12

In the Greek language, what 2 ideas are connected in the term alethia?

Answer 12

Truth and reality

Question 13

What concept did Aristotle develop that is vital to the understanding of language and knowledge?

Answer 13

Categories

Question 14

What two ideas are associated with classification?

Answer 14

Compare (similarity) and contrast (differences)

Question 15

What are Aristotle’s nine categories?

Answer 15

Quantity
Quality
Relations
Place
Date
Posture
Possession
Action
Passivity

Question 16

What is the difference between the substance and accidens of a thing?

Answer 16

Substance essential nature of a thing and it’s accidens are its external, perceivable qualities

Question 17

In what way did Aristotle break with his teacher Plato

Answer 17

Aristotle postulated that there is no ideal realm where forms and ideas exist in an of themselves but is combined as form and matter

Question 18

Explain entelechy

Answer 18

Entelechy represents the form of a thing that enables a thing to become what it becomes

Question 19

What are Aristotle’s four causes that produce change in things?

Answer 19

Formal cause - that which determines what a thing is- sculptors idea for a sculpture
Material cause – that out of which a thing is made - the block of marble
Efficient cause - that by which a thing is made - the sculptor
Final cause- that for which a thing is made - it’s purpose -the decoration of a garden

Question 20

What was Aristotle’s answer to the problem of infinite regress?

Answer 20

Actuality must precede potentiality. This is the concept of the unmoved mover- eternal, immaterial and immutable