Aristotle Flashcards

1
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When and where was Aristotle born?

A

384 BC in Thrace

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2
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What subjects did Aristotle teach?

A

Rhetoric
Poetry
Ethics

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3
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Aristotle was the most famous alumni of what school?

A

Plato

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4
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What book did Aristotle name after his son?

A

Nicomachean ethics

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5
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What is the name of Aristotle’s most famous pupil?

A

Alexander the Great

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6
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What did Alexander the Great get from his mentor Aristotle?

A

A passion for unity

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7
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What was the name and nickname of Aristotle’s school?

A

The Lyceum

The peripatetic school (walking around school)

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8
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What happened to Aristotle toward the end of his life?

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

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9
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What word is used to describe Aristotle’s view of logic

A

Organon

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10
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What is the difference between an argument and a statement?

A

Statements are true or false

Argument are valid or invalid

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11
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The chief principle of logic is what?

A

The law of non contradiction

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12
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In the Greek language, what 2 ideas are connected in the term alethia?

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Truth and reality

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13
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What concept did Aristotle develop that is vital to the understanding of language and knowledge?

A

Categories

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14
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What two ideas are associated with classification?

A

Compare (similarity) and contrast (differences)

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15
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What are Aristotle’s nine categories?

A
Quantity
Quality
Relations
Place
Date
Posture
Possession
Action
Passivity
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16
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What is the difference between the substance and accidens of a thing?

A

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

17
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In what way did Aristotle break with his teacher Plato

A

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

18
Q

Explain entelechy

A

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

19
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What are Aristotle’s four causes that produce change in things?

A

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

20
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What was Aristotle’s answer to the problem of infinite regress?

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