Aristotle

Question 1

APT
Four Causes
Cause 1

Answer 1

Material Cause:

What something is made from

Question 2

APT
Four Causes
Cause 2

Answer 2

Efficient cause
The activity to make it happen, such as sexual activity.
Efficient cause brings out a change in something

Question 3

APT
Four Causes
Cause 3

Answer 3

Formal cause
Form or shape something has
Allows it to be identified

Question 4

APT
Four Causes
Cause 4

Answer 4

Final cause
Purpose or reason for existing
Telos

Question 5

Aetion

Answer 5

Usually translated as ‘a cause’
Can include the concept of explanation as well as origin.
( what it looks like/ what it’s made from and it’s cause)

Question 6

Prime mover

Answer 6

God ( a cause ) a which actualises the potential in everything else. Isn’t affected by anything or knows about us because if it did it would be part of the loop of time which would make it imperfect

Question 7

Aristotles several conclusions about the nature of God

Answer 7

• does not depend on anything for its existence
• eternal
• perfectly good
• immaterial, beyond time and space
• final cause of everything that exists in the universe

Question 8

MBS

What type of philosophy was he focused on??

Answer 8

Empiricism

Scientific reasoning and the physical world

Question 9

What word did Aristotle use to describe the soul??

Answer 9

‘Substance’
The essence or real thing
Said the physical body constantly changes but the substance stays the same

Question 10

What attitude did Aristotle take on the soul which Plato didn’t??

Answer 10

Materialistic- our minds are inseparable from our body