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Flashcards by Alexa Smith, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Alexa Smith
almost 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What are Aristotle's Four Causes? | The Material Cause The Formal Cause The Efficient Cause The Formal Cause |
| What is the Material Cause? | What the thing is made of. |
| What is the Formal Cause? | The thing that makes it recognisable - e.g. the shape and structure. |
| What is the Efficient Cause? | The cause of its existence - e.g. who/what made it. |
| What is the Formal Cause? | Why something is the way it is - e.g. a book is the way it is so it can be easily read, a knife is sharp so that it can cut. |
| What did Aristotle put emphasis on and said was the basis for knowledge? | He put emphasis on the physical world and said experience was the basis for knowledge |
| Give the Four Causes of a statue | Material Cause: It's made of marble Formal Cause: It has the shape of a statue Efficient Cause: A mason made it Final Cause: It's function is to be a beautiful statue that honours/remembers or recalls someone/something |
| What is the Prime Mover? | An eternal, transcendent, impersonal being that was the first cause for movement and the eternal cause for movement. |
| What four things did Aristotle observe about the world? | Everything that exists is in a permanent state of movement or change The Planets seem to move eternally Change or motion is always cause by something objects in the physical world were in a state of ACTUALITY and POTENTIALITY |
| Why is PURE ACTUALITY intrinsically good? | Because to be pure actuality you cannot change, but the lack of fully goodness means there is room to improve and therefore change |
| What are the Three types of Substances in the World? | Material Substances: They can deteriorate Material Things: They can't deteriorate Things that aren't subject to deterioration - e.g. numbers |
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