ABSTRACT
This document entails a fundamental approach to
Aristotle’s epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics.
Mr. Majal
Philosophy 144
ARISTOTLE
Summary
, Contents
Study Guide – Aristotle ........................................................................................................................... 2
Plato and Aristotle .............................................................................................................................. 2
Theory of Knowledge: Finding Knowledge Universals within Particulars........................................... 3
Aristotle’s appeal to experience ..................................................................................................... 3
Language, thought and reality. ....................................................................................................... 3
The essential categories.................................................................................................................. 3
The discovery of logic...................................................................................................................... 4
First principles ................................................................................................................................. 4
Metaphysics ........................................................................................................................................ 5
Critique of the Platonic forms ......................................................................................................... 5
Substance: the key to reality........................................................................................................... 6
Form and matter ............................................................................................................................. 6
Potentiality and actuality ................................................................................................................ 6
Understanding change .................................................................................................................... 7
Teleology ......................................................................................................................................... 7
God: The unmoved mover. ............................................................................................................. 7
Ethics: keeping things in balance ........................................................................................................ 8
Happiness ........................................................................................................................................ 8
Virtue is state of character.............................................................................................................. 9
Virtue is concerned with choice.................................................................................................... 10
Universal principles and relative applications .............................................................................. 10
The mean determined by practical wisdom. ................................................................................ 10
The best form of life...................................................................................................................... 11
Evaluation and significance............................................................................................................... 11
Bibliography .......................................................................................................................................... 11
This document entails a fundamental approach to
Aristotle’s epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics.
Mr. Majal
Philosophy 144
ARISTOTLE
Summary
, Contents
Study Guide – Aristotle ........................................................................................................................... 2
Plato and Aristotle .............................................................................................................................. 2
Theory of Knowledge: Finding Knowledge Universals within Particulars........................................... 3
Aristotle’s appeal to experience ..................................................................................................... 3
Language, thought and reality. ....................................................................................................... 3
The essential categories.................................................................................................................. 3
The discovery of logic...................................................................................................................... 4
First principles ................................................................................................................................. 4
Metaphysics ........................................................................................................................................ 5
Critique of the Platonic forms ......................................................................................................... 5
Substance: the key to reality........................................................................................................... 6
Form and matter ............................................................................................................................. 6
Potentiality and actuality ................................................................................................................ 6
Understanding change .................................................................................................................... 7
Teleology ......................................................................................................................................... 7
God: The unmoved mover. ............................................................................................................. 7
Ethics: keeping things in balance ........................................................................................................ 8
Happiness ........................................................................................................................................ 8
Virtue is state of character.............................................................................................................. 9
Virtue is concerned with choice.................................................................................................... 10
Universal principles and relative applications .............................................................................. 10
The mean determined by practical wisdom. ................................................................................ 10
The best form of life...................................................................................................................... 11
Evaluation and significance............................................................................................................... 11
Bibliography .......................................................................................................................................... 11
