Ancient Philosophical Influences Key Words

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What made something happen, the bringing about of actuality.
Efficient cause
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The essence of a thing, the perfect idea of it.
Form
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The purpose of something.
Final cause
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The philosophical theory that all knowledge is derived through reason and mind
Rationalism
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The most important form that illustrates the other forms.
Form of the Good
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What shape something takes.
Formal cause
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the absolute world of reality which contains the unchanging and eternal Forms.
Realm of the Forms
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The order of priority in which Plato groups the forms.
Hierachy of the Forms
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What something is made of.
Material cause
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The philosophical theory that all knowledge is derived from (sensory) experience.
Empiricism
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The inherent but undeveloped capabilities and possibilities of something.
Potentiality
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A state of being, the reality of something at that moment in time.
Actuality
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The aim or purpose of something.
Telos
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The world as we sense it, unreliable and in a constant state of flux.
Realm of appearances
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A fully actualised being who is the final cause of the universe. Started all their movement in the universe through the process of attraction.
Prime mover
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Plato's way of illustrating the Forms.
Cave Allegory
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The essence of a thing, the perfect idea of it.

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Form

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The purpose of something.

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The philosophical theory that all knowledge is derived through reason and mind

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The most important form that illustrates the other forms.

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