PHI-10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Substantial Form, Hyle, Quiddity
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Plato on the left and aristotle on the right. Plato interested in the moral goodness, pure abstractness (pointing up) Aristotle by pointing down which shows that he is challenging this; he says we should go out and gather data, and form theories off of the data. Wrote a book called the parts of an animal. The natural world is a world of becoming - a world of processes and constant change (of motion) The analysis of change involves a stable core- becoming involves a steady being and regularity. This stable element secures the possibility of knowledge or science. Ex: it is plato, a human being, who is born, grows old, and dies. What aristotle means by motion, is change, movement of one state to another state. Being and coming to be are said in many ways . They are all being in some sense, just different types of beings. 1) substances: beings, which simply are, a subject of properties (shirt)
