Unit 1 charles hall 123
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- Unit 1
- Aristotle
- He was a empiricist
- Born 15 years after socrates death so not influenced by him
- The theory of the four causes
- 1.Material cause
- What it is made from
- 2.Efficient cause
- How was it made
- 3.Formal cause
- Characteristics
- 4.Final cause
- It's purpose
- if somthing is achiveing it's purpose then to aristotle is is good
- 1.Material cause
- The prime mover
- "The series must start with somthing, since nothing can come from nothing"
- outside space and time
- There must be an uncaused cause
- Perfect
- Simple(cannot be broken down)
- Immutable(cannot change)
- Weaknesses
- Where did the prime mover come from if it is only though
- Existance is a brute fact, requiring no final cause" Betrand Russell
- Infinite Regression
- Aristotle
- He was a empiricist
- Born 15 years after socrates death so not influenced by him
- The theory of the four causes
- 1.Material cause
- What it is made from
- 2.Efficient cause
- How was it made
- 3.Formal cause
- Characteristics
- 4.Final cause
- It's purpose
- if somthing is achiveing it's purpose then to aristotle is is good
- 1.Material cause
- The prime mover
- "The series must start with somthing, since nothing can come from nothing"
- outside space and time
- There must be an uncaused cause
- Perfect
- Simple(cannot be broken down)
- Immutable(cannot change)
- Weaknesses
- Where did the prime mover come from if it is only though
- Existance is a brute fact, requiring no final cause" Betrand Russell
- Infinite Regression
- Strengths
- The final cause allows people to have a purpose
- The knowledge is from the sensory world witch we have expirence of
- Strengths
- The final cause allows people to have a purpose
- The knowledge is from the sensory world witch we have expirence of
- Plato
- The Analogory of the cave
- Can't trust sensory knowledge
- Our sense can be decieved
- Meanings
- Prisioners - Humans
- The Cave - Our world
- Shadows - What we see
- The outside world - What is true
- The prisioner that escaped - Philosopher
- The sun - A piroir knowledge and goodness
- Can't trust sensory knowledge
- The theory of the forms
- Good is the most important form
- The world of the forms is perfect and unchaanging
- There is a perfect form of everything
- We recognise forms because we are born with a dim recollection of them
- Weaknesses
- Good is subjective
- It seems unlikly that there will be a perfect form of everything. eg cancer
- It does not help us to make sense of the world
- It cannot be proved
- Strenghs
- Explains why we recognise essential elements of somthing
- helps us to understand imperfections in the world
- incourages us to not accept things at face value
- There is a hierarchy of forms
- The Analogory of the cave
- Aristotle
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