Aristotle - De Anima Books I, III

Question 1

Aristotle was born in Macedonia where he founded the school, the _________. Students were known as peripatein (i.e. pacers walking up and down).

Answer 1

Lyceum

Question 2

TRUE OR FALSE: Aristotle, as a student of Plato, was in agreement with Plato’s Theory of Forms where the true state of being is with ideas.

Answer 2

False: Aristotle was opposite Plato’s Theory of Forms, in which he believed reality was the true state of being
Transcendental ideas weren’t reality

Question 3

Aristotle was a _________ instead of an _________

Answer 3

realist, idealist

Question 4

What term represents that everything has an end?

Answer 4

Teleological

teleo - ‘end’, ‘complete’

Question 5

Describe what the empiricist believes in

Answer 5

Empiricists believe in the here and now, and that experiences of certain phenomena (i.e. senses) are what truth is based on

Question 6

TRUE OR FALSE: Hylomorphic is a trait that describes something that is logically coherent

Answer 6

FALSE: Systemic is logical coherence, hylomorphic is that man is composite of body and soul

Question 7

What are the 3 categories of writing?

Answer 7

Theoretical
Practical
Productive

Question 8

This term describes knowledge for its own sake

Answer 8

Theoretical

Question 9

This is the concern of doing something that isn’t separate from the agent (i.e. doing something pertaining to ourselves)

Answer 9

Practical

Question 10

What is the productive category of writing pertaining to Aristotle?

Answer 10

the concern of making something external to the agent (e.g. medicine, economics, music etc.)

Question 11

_________ is reality when we take away the forms

Answer 11

substance

Question 12

What is ‘ousia’?

Answer 12

Substance

Question 13

TRUE OR FALSE: All things are predicated of substance; substance is not predicated from anything else

Answer 13

TRUE

Question 14

Substance = _________ and accidents = _________

Answer 14

nouns, adjetives

Question 15

Explain what the metaphysical components of substance are

Answer 15

The metaphysical components of substances are form and matter. Form is the definition of essence while the matter is material of the object

Question 16

If you’re given a table, what is the form and what is the matter? And what is the form of the wood? And so forth?

Answer 16

form = table, matter = wood

Wood –> form = plank, matter = cells

Question 17

What is prime matter?

Answer 17

pure matter with no form/determination; a logical necessity for this line of thinking, this is not within the realm of our experience

Question 18

Pure form is akin to the idea of _________

Answer 18

God

Question 19

What are the 4 causes of Aristotle?

Answer 19

1. material: that of which a thing is made
2. formal: the definition or essence of a thing
3. efficient: the agent causing (i.e. creating/making) it
4. final: the purpose/end of a thing

Question 20

The three men of Aristotle exhibit different levels of being. What are the three men?

Answer 20

1) has potential to learn
2) knows something
3) uses knowledge to apply something

Question 21

The description of sensing states that we have the ability to sense through our sense. Once we sense something, we receive its _________ without its _________; becoming the sensed it how we relate to our _________

Answer 21

form, matter, environment

Question 22

Describe is the main difference between Plato and Aristotle’s idea of “equality”

Answer 22

Plato continues to implement idealism which is based off of the theory of recollection, in which all things that are equal participate in the Form of equality.
Aristotle implements idealism which utilizes intellectual capacity to decide on what’s ‘real’, and what is equal