Aristotles beliefs

Cards (13)

  • What is the key to knowledge according to Aristotle?
    The physical world, we can learn using our senses
  • What idea of Plato's did Aristotle reject?
    The World of Forms
  • What was crucial to Aristotle?
    Observation of the natural world
  • What modern sciences did Aristotle look into/ create?
    Physics, biology, psychology, meteorology, astronomy
  • How did Aristotle define good?
    Something they fulfills it's nature/ purpose
  • How do you achieve eudaimonia?
    Eudaimonia can only be achieved after death and by following the Golden Mean whilst living
  • How does the Prime mover make things move/ change?
    By attracting things to himself so He's not affected by motion
  • How else does the prime mover cause things to move?
    Desire/attraction/love
  • what book tells us how to live life?
    Nicomechean Ethics
  • what does Aristotle believe about Akrasia?
    It can be experienced by everyone
  • things have to change for it to achieve its final end
  • everything has a purpose
  • material world is the real world