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Cards (16)

  • What does aetion mean?

    Cause, also used in the context of meaning explanation
  • What does Telos mean?

    ultimate goal or purpose
  • What is the Prime Mover?

    Causes movement and change without being affected, causes motion by attracting things towards itself
  • What is empiricism?
    the view that knowledge originates in experience and observations
  • What is a rationalist?
    Someone who relies on reason to explain things instead of the physical world
  • What does Ergon mean?

    Purpose/function
  • What does eudaimonia mean?

    Happiness, flourishing
  • What is The Golden Mean?

    Living in balance rather than in excess or in deficit
  • what is meant by Akrasia?

    Weakness of will
  • what does contingent mean?

    Dependent on something else
  • what is meat by necessary?

    essential and inevitable e.g. God
  • what is meant by phronimos?

    A person of practical wisdom
  • what is a substance?

    something that can exist on its own
  • Whats an accident?

    ways in which substances can exist e.g. colours
  • what is actuality?

    Something that is happening
  • what is potentiality?

    Something that could happen