CHAPTER 2 - L3 Flashcards
- Among the theoretical disciplines: Aristotle included
logic, biology, physics, and metaphysics, among others.
- Among the practical ones, Aristotle counted
ethics and politics.
_____ is the aim of the theoretical sciences
“truth”
the _____ is the end goal of the practical ones.
“good”
a process that is inherent in things.
- Change
- Every human person aspires for an ____.
end
o This ____, we have learned is happiness or human flourishing.
end
- No individual resists ______. We all want to be happy.
happiness
o What Aristotle actually mean is _________, a kind of contentment in knowing that one is getting the best out of life. A kind of feeling that one has maxed out his potentials in the world, that he has attained the crux of his humanity.
human flourishing
- Declared the Greatest happiness principle by saying that an action is right as far as it maximizes the attainment of happiness for the greatest number of people.
- John Stuart Mill in the 18th century.
- The first materialists are the
atomists in Ancient Greece.
They led a school whose primary belief is that the world is made up of and is controlled by the tiny indivisible units in the world called atomos or seeds.
- Democritus and Leucippus
- Democritus and Leucippus led a school whose primary belief is that the world is made up of and is controlled by the tiny indivisible units in the world called _______
atomos or seeds.
- For _____ and his disciples, the world, including human beings, is made up of matter.
Democritus
- ______ simply comes together randomly to form the things in the world. Only material entities matter.
Atomos
