Key Terms Flashcards
Transcendent
Beyond material world. Above the range of normal human experience. The forms are transcendent
Archetypes
An initial idea from which later ideas and morals are derived, e.g the forms are archetypes
Necessary being
A being that must exist can not not exist
Metaphysics
A story of the theories of nature and reality,
- Name of Aristotle’s book
Infinite regression
An endless chain of cause and effect
Teleology
Referring to the end or purpose
Actuality
When an object fulfils it’s purpose to become something else
Potentiality
When something contains the ingredients or ability to become something else
Pure Actuality
No potential for change or to be acted upon
Materialism
Aristotle believes this - rejection of dualism, believes only in body not soul and current life not hereafter
Form (Plato)
The idea of something. Ideal, perfect, eternal. Our soul has recollection and education is process of remembering.
Form (Aristotle)
The formal cause
- the shape something takes that allows it to be identified
Rationalist
Knowledge based on reason - Plato
Empirical
Knowledge from / after experience
Epistemology
Study of conditions / nature of knowledge
