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9 Cards in this Set
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What are the ten categories of being?
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Substance, quantity, quality, relative, place, time, position, having, acting upon, being affected
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How did Aristotle come across them?
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He was looking for a basic and fundamental explanation of being.
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Explain ARistotle's definition of virtue.
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Virtue is the golden mean between the 2 extremes (excess and deficient)
-depends on function -virtue is relative to each person -honesty -liar -harmful truth telling -honesty -doing the action in the "mean" develops virtue Virtue requires knowledge(action+knowledge+habits) "Virtue is a state of character such that one does the right thing at the right time, for the right reason towards the appropriate object, with the correct results |
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Akrasia
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Knowledge against virtue
Doing what is bad, knowing that it is bad, because you are overcome by pleasure. -If virtue is knowledge, then akrasia is impossible |
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Essential predication
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Essential predication is being said of something(Socrates is human)
-Is of identity |
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Accidental predication
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being said in something(Socrates is white)
-Is of predication |
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Primary Substances
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-exist independently of secondary substances (Socrates,Pegasus)
- Everything which isn't a primary substance is said of or said in a primary substance - If premise 1 is true, it would possible for anything to exist without primary substances. - Without primary substances, nothing could exist. |
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Happiness is the highest, complete good.
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- The complete good is self-sufficient
- Something is self-sufficient when it alone makes life worth living and lacks nothing. - Happiness makes life worth living and lacks nothing. - Happiness is the complete good. |
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4 Causes
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- The four causes are necessary for adequate explanations.
- Material:what something is made of - Formal: pattern, form of something - Efficient: the principle of sufficient reason - Final: the function, purpose of something |
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