Aristotle - De Anima Books I, III Flashcards
Aristotle was born in Macedonia where he founded the school, the _________. Students were known as peripatein (i.e. pacers walking up and down).
Lyceum
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.
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
Aristotle was a _________ instead of an _________
realist, idealist
What term represents that everything has an end?
Teleological
teleo - ‘end’, ‘complete’
Describe what the empiricist believes in
Empiricists believe in the here and now, and that experiences of certain phenomena (i.e. senses) are what truth is based on
TRUE OR FALSE: Hylomorphic is a trait that describes something that is logically coherent
FALSE: Systemic is logical coherence, hylomorphic is that man is composite of body and soul
What are the 3 categories of writing?
Theoretical
Practical
Productive
This term describes knowledge for its own sake
Theoretical
This is the concern of doing something that isn’t separate from the agent (i.e. doing something pertaining to ourselves)
Practical
What is the productive category of writing pertaining to Aristotle?
the concern of making something external to the agent (e.g. medicine, economics, music etc.)
_________ is reality when we take away the forms
substance
What is ‘ousia’?
Substance
TRUE OR FALSE: All things are predicated of substance; substance is not predicated from anything else
TRUE
Substance = _________ and accidents = _________
nouns, adjetives
Explain what the metaphysical components of substance are
The metaphysical components of substances are form and matter. Form is the definition of essence while the matter is material of the object
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?
form = table, matter = wood
Wood –> form = plank, matter = cells
What is prime matter?
pure matter with no form/determination; a logical necessity for this line of thinking, this is not within the realm of our experience
Pure form is akin to the idea of _________
God
What are the 4 causes of Aristotle?
- material: that of which a thing is made
- formal: the definition or essence of a thing
- efficient: the agent causing (i.e. creating/making) it
- final: the purpose/end of a thing
The three men of Aristotle exhibit different levels of being. What are the three men?
1) has potential to learn
2) knows something
3) uses knowledge to apply something
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 _________
form, matter, environment
Describe is the main difference between Plato and Aristotle’s idea of “equality”
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
