Review Questions for Test 2
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You will likely find these notes on Aristotle useful.
Phaedo, Meno, and Republic
- what is Plato's theory of the soul in the Phaedo?
- what is Plato's theory of the soul in the Republic?
- how are these two theories different?
- what does Socrates say about learning in the Meno?
- who, besides Socrates, is the main character in the Meno? what does Socrates have him do?
Background on Aristotle
- where did Aristotle live?
- how did we get his works?
- who was whose student among the following three: (a) Plato (b) Aristotle (c) Alexander the Great ?
Plato and Aristotle
- what's nativism? who was a nativist, Plato or Aristotle?
- what's empiricism? who was an empiricist, Plato or Aristotle?
Form, Matter, and Substances
- what's form? what's matter? what's a substance? what "individuates" substances (hint: look up the definition of "individuate" in a dictionary)?
- what does it mean to say that something is a subject of predication? what does Aristotle think is always a subject of predication, but never itself predicated (hint: look up "predicate" in a dictionary)?
- what are the two different types of substance? how are they different?
- what determines the species of a substance?
- what's an accidental form? what's an essential form?
- what is the Sapir/Whorf hypothesis?
- what are universals? are forms universals?
- what's essential form determines the human species?
- how does change work on Aristotle's theory? can all substances change?
Thinking
- where does thinking take place? how does it work?
- do we become what we think of? why or why not?
Causes
- what are the four causes (you really need to understand the different kinds of causation: generate a bunch of examples, say what the different causes of them are, and think about it)?
- does everything have an efficient cause?
- what is teleology (hint: get out a dictionary)?
- what is the Unmoved Mover?
- Does Aristotle think the universe has a beginning? Does he think it will have an end?