Cosmology
Aristotle said everything is a composite of these two things.
What is form and matter?
A philosopher who said everything was unchanging.
Heavy elements that tend to fall or move downwards.
What are earth and water?
The study of what a thing (such as an acorn) will become (such as an oak tree) in terms of Aristotle's causation categories.
What is the final cause?
Aristotle's teacher.
Who was Plato?
Believed the universe was eternal rather than created from nothing.
Who was Aristotle?
Aristotle described this as the purpose served by a change.
What is the final cause?
Lighter elements that tend to move up.
What are fire and air?
In Aristotle's view, the soul that allows humans to reason.
What is the rational soul?
None of his completed works survive.
In Aristotle's view, the material world.
What is the sublunar or terrestrial region?
Aristotle described this as the form of a thing, such as the marble for a sculpture. It was subject to change.
What is the formal cause?
Motion towards the natural place of an object, influenced by its composition and nature.
What is natural motion?
Aristotle believed this organ was the seat of intellect, feelings, etc.
What is the heart?
Taught Alexander the Great.
Who is Aristotle?
Earth, water, air, & fire.
Aristotle described this as unchanging, such as the marble of a sculpture.
What is the material cause?
Motion caused by a force external to an object.
What is violent or forced motion?
A belief that everything in nature has a purpose or function. Aristotle examined this as the final cause.
What is teleology?
He is credited as describing humans as "featherless bipeds."
Who is Plato?
The cause of movement in the celestial spheres.
Who is the prime mover or unmoved mover?
The agency or thing that brings about a change.
What is the efficient cause?
According to Aristotle speed was determined by a combination of these two forces.
Aristotle believed these organisms had nutritive souls.
What are plants, animals, and humans?
Believed in a world of essential forms and that everything in the physical world was a shadow of the ideal essential form.
Who is Plato?