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Philosophy
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What is Metaphysics | It is the science of Being. It is what is real and what is fake, and asks what kind of stuff is there. |
| What is Epistomology | It is the science of knowledge. It asks how do we know anything at all? |
| What is Substance | The thing, whatever it is, that makes a thing what it is, as opposed to something else. |
| What is a Universal Substance | It is the term or class of something, it is what makes a human a human or a sheep a sheep, it is the secondary case. |
| What is an Actual Substance | It is the type of something, it is what makes something particular that particular thing, it is traits and defining features, it is the primary case. |
| What is an Accident | It is a non-essential feature of a substance(identifying perhaps, but not defying). |
| What is the problem with the Future Contingent Proposition | The problem is that it suggests limitations to our perception of freedom, and applied the logic of true and false according to sea battles. |
| What questions should we ask concerning the Future Contingent Proposition | 1. What does it mean 2. Is it true or false 3. If it is true, can we make it false? |
| What is an excess of virtue and a defect of virtue | An excess of virtue is what we would call foolhardy, and a defect of virtue is what we would call cowardice. |
| What is virtue | It is the golden mean between excess and defect, it is the center line, varies based on what we are comparing it to, it is supposed to be tempered by all your other virtues. |
| What is Telos | It is the ultimate purpose, goal, or end of a thing. |
| What is the theological application of Aristotle's concept of Telos | Human goodness is measured by the alignment of actions with the divine purpose of loving and obeying God. |
| What are the two things that love desires | 1. It desires the objective good of the beloved 2. It desires a union with the beloved, it must be in this order otherwise it is defective. |
| What is friendship | It is a particular state that requires equality of station, proximity, and reciprocity, which is the most important. |
| What is Equality of Station | That two people occupy the same place in life. |
| What is Proximity | That you must see the person on a regular basis in order to be a friend. |
| What is Reciprocity | That you can provide something to the other person, and they can provide something of the like kind to you, and you both help each other. |
| What tells us how we are supposed to study something | The thing we are studying tells us how we are supposed to study it. |
| What is the key to the Nicomacus | The good(telos) as the final cause of every action, and the conception of virtue as a golden mean between excess and defect. |
| What should we let tell us how to study | We should allow the subject to tell us how to study, and what we are supposed to study. |