Philosopher/Philosophy
An aristocratic Athenian who lived through his city’s defeat in war.
Who was Plato?
Greek for Form
What is Morphe?
How a particular thing shares in the Form; it imitates
What is participation?
It is the stuff or matter from which something is made.
What is material cause?
The visible world we are born into-the world of senses and of public opinion.
What is the cave?
Son of a physician, student at Plato’s Academy for about twenty years
Who was Aristotle?
Greek for Matter
What is Hyle?
The right amount between deficiency and excess
What is Golden Mean?
It is the goal or purpose for which something exists.
What is final cause?
Education: not adding information, but turning the whole soul toward what is real.
What is the escape?
For Aristotle, this means "what a thing could be".
What is Potentiality?
For Plato, it is eternal, unchanging, and perfect.
What is Forms?
Reality is ultimately mental or immaterial, not physical.
What is idealism?
It is the agent or force that brings something into existence or sets it in motion.
What is efficient cause?
Appearances and secondhand beliefs we mistake for knowledge because everyone repeats them
What is the shadows?
For Aristotle, this means "what is currently is."
What is Actuality?
The combined framework explaining that form and matter are inextricably linked to compose all reality
What is Hylomorphism?
It means the world we observe is genuinely real and knowable.
What is realism?
It the structure or design that gives something its specific shape or identity.
What is formal cause?
Habit, custom, and unexamined assumption
What is the chains?
What is the form of an apple?
What is Apple-ness?
It means human flourishing
What is Eudaimonia?
A real individual thing; matter and form together
What is substance?
It answers the question, who or what makes it happen?
What is efficient cause?
The form and the Good: the source of both reality and our abilty to understand it
What is the sun?