Aristotle
by danie ortega
1. All form of life have nutritive,reproductive and loco motive powe.
2. Animals differ by having the power of sensation and perception.
2.1. more complex animals have intellectual power(problem solving).
3. He argues that humans have a special intellectual power called reason,which is the only ability to comprehend the universal.
4. Art is always teaching Greek virtue and mathmatical beauty.
5. Where do forms reside?:Aristotle believes that the forms lie inside the thing themselves.
5.1. ex.DNA,Acorn
6. How does this apply to Ethics?: the final cause for which humans are created is happiness-Eudaimonia
7. Aristotles' Biology :he believed that nature does nothing by chance.
8. He is a scientific and practical thinker.
8.1. does not believe in the world of the form, but does think everything we can understand we can tough.
8.1.1. He creates and applies a scientific model to the philosophical investigation.
9. What is Teleological?:Everything in the world has a cause(things that drive them to be created
9.1. Material causes-the material from which the thing is made.
9.1.1. Formal causes-the shape or form a thing must take in order to be recognized.
9.1.1.1. Efficent cause-the actual force used to make a thing
9.1.1.1.1. Final cause-what is the ultimate purpose of the thing.