Question | Answer | Example |
What was the material cause of thing? | That was out of which a thing was made | A chair is made of wood, wood is the cause |
What did Plato theorize about the world? | there were four causes in everything. Once you knew the causes, you could understand the oject. | |
What was the efficient cause of a thing? | By whom or what a thing is made | a chair is made by a worker, the worker is the cause |
What is the found cause of a thing? | the "blueprint" from which a thing is made | the plans for the chair are from what the chair was made, the plans were a cause |
What is the final cause of a thing? | For what a thing is made | A chair is made you sitting it, this is the cause |
Which cause did Aristotle find the most important? | the final cause | |
Why did Aristotle find the final cause the most important? | because by knowing the reason a thing is made, you can understand it fully and figure out the other causes | |
What was Aritotle's method of working backwards to understand an object called? | Teleological method | |
What is the natural law? | everything is created for a particular purpose by a particular design. By fulfilling its purpose it is good. All things are working to become good. | for a chair to be good, it must be able to be sat in |
What did Aristotle find was the greatest good for man? | reason | |
Why was reason the most important? | by reason you learned the true purpose of yourself and objects around you | |
What was the highest end for all people? | eudamonia | |
What is eudamonia? | roughly happinness, being virtous, fulfilling your purpose completely, inner peace | |
How would a virtous man know if he is being virtous? | he will feel eudamonia if he is doing upright things and will feel terrible if he does worng thing | |
What was the major thing Aritotle disagreed about with Plato? | the theory of forms | |
What are the two things necessary to have a happy life? | 1) lead a good life 2) have a good life | |
How does one lead a good life? | by being honest, just, temperate, witty, and compassionate | |
How does one live a good life? | by having good looks, wealth, mighty connections | |
Who could not hae a happy life? | women, poor, ugly, dull, slaves, or immoral people | |
What was the Golden Mean or the Doctrine of Means? | A theory of Aritstotle's that stated all things must be in balance, not to much nor too little, in order for one to have a happt life | Too much courage makes you risky, to little makes you cowardly |
Did Aritstotle believe that virtue was realtive? | yes, each person had to work on different vices in order to be virtous | |
According to Aristotle, how did one become virtous? | by habits begun in childhood and practice | |
Could habits be changed? | not once one reaches adulthood, by then habits are set in for life | |
When did Aristotle live? | 384 BC to 322 BC | |