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Philosophy Notes - Aristotle
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- 1Aristotle and Plato agree on?Reason = Distinctive human faculty
Intrinsic Goodness of Knowledge
Necessity of Philosophy
Virtue Ethics
Humans are socio-political animals
Teleology, all things have a purpose
Transcendent Absolutes - 2Aristotle and Plato disagree on?Emphasis on common sense and the realm of nature
The recollection thesis
The “Virtue is Knowledge” Thesis
The immortality of the soul
The theory of the forms
Aristotle believes you can have all virtues but still be unhappy while Plato believes virtue = happiness - 3Aristotle believes in?Prime mover
- 4For Aristotle, what is a spiritual thing?Your mind is a part of your body
- 5The Soul ="The first act of a living body that has life potentially"
- 6For Aristotle, what differs from the bodily sense?The mind allows for intellectual cognition
- 7Criteria for EudaimoniaContinuous
Activity
involved Rationality
Ultimate
Self-Sufficient - 8Eudaimonia =Eu = Good
Daimon = Spirit - 9Four CandidatesPleasure, Wealth, Honor,Contemplation
- 10Pleasure =Not distinctly human, continuous rationale, can be pursued without virtue, and is not sufficient for meaning in life
- 11Wealth =Only a means to another end and can be pursued without virtue
- 12Honor =A virtue should be an end in itself; dampened more on “giver” than “receiver”
- 13Contemplation =Inherently good and an end in itself
- 14Badness (Kakia) =A habitual disposition to do the wrong thing. The opposite of virtue
- 15“Weakness of the will” (Akrasia) =This individual knows how bad he is and wants to refrain from wrongdoing, but lacks the willpower
- 16Brutishness =Innate, incurable disposition to harm others
- 17Substance =Something that can exist in and itself. Has 2 features
- 18Four CausesMaterial Cause - A thing’s matters
Efficient Cause - The force or agent that brought about a thing
Formal Cause - What a thing is, its essence
Final Cause - A things purpose