Aristotle's: On The Soul Flashcards
What are Aristotle’s 4 general classes?
- Independent thing or a This
- Quality
- Quantity
- Relation
Name the 6 sciences your professor said Aristotle is responsible for creating.
- Formal Logic
- Formal Biology
- Metaphysics
- Rhetoric
- Literary Criticism
- Psychology
Define Entelecheia.
“Being-at-work-staying-itself” also a fusion of completeness with that continuity or persistence.
Define Energia.
“Being-at-work”
Is the Soul a thing?
No.
Are the soul and the body connected?
Yes.
Can the soul be separated from the body according to Aristotle?
It can not.
What are the two duties of the soul?
- Movement by oneself
2. Sensing by oneself
Democritus was what type of thinker?
A Atomist.
All thinkers believe in these three ideas.
- Motion
- Sense Perception
- Bodilessness
What is the difference between Democritus’ round atoms and the other various shapes of atms?
Round atoms compose the soul. Other shapes make up material things. Also, round atoms are slippery and wet and that’s how they move themselves.
What are the four sets of motion?
- Change of Place
- Alteration
- Wasting Away
- Growing
Can a human soul be in a dogs body?
No.
What are Aristotle’s 6 objections to Harmony? (Professor only told us 4)
- Soul cannot be a ratio.
- Harmony can’t cause motion because the soul does that.
- You can tune a body but not a soul.
- Joining together is magnitude, but the soul has no magnitude.
What causes does Aristotle believe in?
- Material
- Formal
- Agent
- Final
What does Soma translate to?
The body.
What does Psuche translate to?
The soul.
What does Hule translate to?
Material.
What does Morphe translate to?
Shapeliness.
What does Dunamis translate to?
Potency.
What does Entelecheia translate to?
Being-at-work-staying-itself
The soul is the form for?
The body.
The body is the form for?
The organ.
The body is the material for?
The soul.
The organ is the material for?
The body.
The organ is the form for?
The tissue.
The tissue is the material for?
The organ.
The tissue is the form for?
Earth, Air, Water, Fire.
The Earth, Air, Water, Fire is the material for?
The tissue.
Atomists start with atoms, where as Aristotle starts with?
Life.
Aristotle starts with life, where as Atomists start with?
Atoms.
How does one person have the ability to stand when they are sitting?
They have the potential/potency to stand at all times.
What are the parts of thinghood?
- Form
- Material
- Whatever something is made of
What is a quality of a living thing?
They must be able to nourish themselves.
What is Aristotle’s view of the soul?
It is the form of the body.
What is Socrates’ view of the soul?
It is an immaterial thing that joins with the human body.
What is Democritus’ view of the soul?
It is a piece of matter.
What is the Wax and Shape Molded in It example relate to the soul and the body?
There’s an impression in the wax. Destroy the wax and you destroy the impression.
If possibly, the ability to cut was removed from an ax, would it still be an ax?
It would not longer be an ax except ambiguously. It wouldn’t be able to perform the ax function.
