Aristotle Revision Quiz

Rationalist

Roman

Empirical

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It's structure and characteristics

It's soul

What colour it is

It's weight in kilograms

The material from which things are made

The number of materials that make something up

The texture of something

The size of the material that makes something up

Matter that has a particular form

Matter that is the most important in terms of what makes up our world

Matter that has no particular form or structure

Matter that makes up things in our world that have the most structure

Theory of Causes

Theory of Empiricism

Theory of Causality

Theory of Aristotle

The act of it being chiseled

It's height

Bronze

It's purpose, to decorate

What purpose does the thing have?

Who created the thing?

Why is it here?

How did it happen?

The Form Cause

The Final Cause

The Extra Cause

The Formal Cause

It answers the question 'how long has it been here?' and tells us the age of the thing in question. Aristotle believed strongly in the importance of how old things are and believed we could learn a lot from this.

Aristotle believed in the idea that everything has a purpose and this cause therefore answers the question 'what is it for?', attempting to inform us of the ultimate reason for its existence.

He believed that the substance of things is very important in discovering more about the origins of the universe and so this cause answers what the thing is made up of.

The Final Cause answers the question of the objects Form and allows us to know this immediately.

Baby

Human

Adult

Toddler

How an object will cease to be e.g. death

An object's final purpose

The 'form' of an object once it has reached it's telos

The explanation for how the object came into existence

Monism

Dualism

Polyism

He did not believe in a soul

Plants have no soul, animals have a soul with power to move and humans have an intellectual soul.

Plants and animals both have souls that give them desire and feelings and humans have this plus the power of reason.

Plants only have a soul once they've reached a certain age and animals and humans have identical souls in that they have feelings, desires and the power of reason.

Plants have a soul with the powers of reproduction, nutrition, growth. Animals have these things plus their soul allows them to move because they have desires and feelings as well. Humans have these things and the power of reason.

Material Cause

Efficient Cause

Formal Cause

Final Cause

Timeless, spaceless and eternal

Loving and caring

Object of love and desire

Necessary being

The world is constantly changing yet Aristotle did not believe that this movement/change can occur spontaneously but only as a result of an event or cause. Therefore there must be a chain of movement based on cause and effect, but this cannot simply be an infinite regress as this would mean something had caused itself which is a completely unreasonable idea, so came to the conclusion there must be an unmoved mover: the Prime Mover

Aristotle believed in a force that is personal and causes change and movement in the world but caring for and loving his creation, naming this the Prime Mover. He believed that this allowed change to happen because of people's worship and prayer.

The world is constantly changing because the Prime Mover uses peoples souls to control movement.

The Prime Mover forces things to move and change by using a reward and punishment system much alike to the Christian and Muslim god's.

Aristotle's argument is based on cause and effect which can be tested and verified- cause and effect is a theory used in science and psychology everyday and empirical evidence can be gathered for this.

He creates a strong argument by providing a large amount of empirical evidence

His theory makes us think by attempting to answer 4 important questions about everything

Aristotle makes it clear how to identify when something has achieved its telos

Aristotle relied on the idea that everything has a soul

Aristotle stole Plato's name 'forms'

Aristotle didn't define the difference between substance and matter clearly

Aristotle relied on the idea that everything has a final purpose when this may not be the case- we do not have empirical evidence for this

Empirical proof

Rationalist proof

Supporting theories

Further knowledge