platos cave/aristotle Flashcards
shadows of statues of natural objects
images the prisoners in the cave see
fire burning behind them
source of light for prisoners
the sun outside the cave
the good on the divided line
objects in the world outside the cave
represent forms
statues in the cave
represent physical objects
Socrates view on education
about reorienting the soul from interest in becoming to interest in being
substance/primary being
an individual combining form and matter
process of definition clarified by aristotle
definition by genus and specific difference
aristotle’s explanation of change
distinction between actuality and potential
4 causes
formal, material, efficient, final
Aristotelian view of soul
internal principle of purposive motion
teleology
study of purpose or aim
Eudaemonia
happiness/meaning of life
Aristotelian God
unmoved over, thought thinking itself, the fully actual
