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Aristotle
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aristotle | plato's student, sent to Athens, 20 years at the academy |
| lyceum | Aristotles school, natural philosophy, greek campaign destroyed it |
| logic | first to study it, made syllogism |
| rules of logic | law of identity, contradicted, excluded third |
| theory of forms | disagreed but believed in essence |
| forms and substance | p essence is above, a in the object |
| teleology | study of design and purpose |
| telos as form | can be something but not always |
| 4 causes | formal, natural, efficient, final |
| final cause | most important, causes other causes |
| prime mover | provides final cause |
| Aristotelian biology | wrote bio books, studied many animals |
| role of heart | human mind |
| spontaneous creation | living produced by non living |
| aesthetics | art, emotions, realization, true form of idea |