Aristotle

Question 1

What was Aristotle?

Answer 1

Empiricist

Question 2

What does substance mean?

Answer 2

Matter and form

Question 3

What does form mean?

Answer 3

Structure, key characteristics

Question 4

What is prime matter?

Answer 4

Substance which could have no mater but no form

Question 5

What is potentiality?

Answer 5

Something contains the ingredients or inherit qualities to become something

Question 6

What is actuality?

Answer 6

Object fulfils its potential and becomes something else

Question 7

What is eudomonia?

Answer 7

Final end

Question 8

When does Aristotle believe that we are fully human?

Answer 8

When we are virtuous and wisdom

Question 9

What is the material cause?

Answer 9

What is it made of?

Question 10

What is the efficient cause?

Answer 10

The agent which brings something about. How does it happen?

Question 11

What is the formal cause?

Answer 11

The characteristics. What are the characteristics?

Question 12

What is the final cause?

Answer 12

Ultimate reason for existence. What is it for?

Question 13

What is the Prime Mover?

Answer 13

• Aristotle’s God
• Object of desire and love
• Draws things to it like a magnet
• Immaterial
• Can’t be made of anything
• FINAL CAUSE
• Purpose of all movement
• First of all substances
• Potentiality to actuality
• Not pushing

Question 14

What is God in Aristotle views?

Answer 14

• Not material, spiritual
• God is ‘thought’
• Depends on himself
• Doesn’t change
• Knows himself
• Doesn’t know physical world that we inhabit
• Doesn’t have a plan for us and not affected by us

Question 15

Where can the understanding of the relationship between the body and souls can be found in his writings?

Answer 15

De Anima

Question 16

What did Aristotle see the living creature being?

Answer 16

A substance

Question 17

What’s his ideas on soul and body?

Answer 17

Body as being the matter and souls as it’s form

Question 18

What is the living being?

Answer 18

A composite whole

Question 19

What are the souls like in plants?

Answer 19

Plants have powers of nutrition growth and reproduction.

Question 20

What are the souls like in animals?

Answer 20

Animals are above plants and their souls have appetites as well as powers found in plants so that animals have desires and feelings which give ability to move.

Question 21

What are the souls like in humans?

Answer 21

Human soul is nothing more than organisation of the body but it has the power of reason

Question 22

What did Aristotle believe about the soul?

Answer 22

Soul is the form of the body

Question 23

What is Aristotle ideas on body and soul separation?

Answer 23

Body and souls are not two separate elements but are one thing

Question 24

What did Aristotle believe when we die?

Answer 24

Reason survives when we die not a soul. Soul dies along the body

Question 25

What is telos?

Answer 25

Purpose or end goal/ result

Question 26

What is teleology?

Answer 26

The study of the universe in terms of ends or final causes?

Question 27

Difference between Plato and Aristotle?

Answer 27

Aristotle didn’t believe that they were two difference realms. He refused to accept that true knowledge doesn’t belong in the empirical world. Real knowledge of the world in which we live is the only area where we can have true knowledge