PHILOS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Unmoved Mover, Polytheism, Electrical Contacts
16 Oct 2018
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Aristotle - metaphysics - how the earth is created. What is wisdom - depends on who we ask. Wisdom is the best and highest knowledge. Aristotle - les interest in finding a sharp line in between science and philosophy. What sort of a science would widom be. What kind of science is wise knowledge? (aristotle"s profile of philosophical wisdom) It will be exact, teachable, knowledge of causes, knowledge about causes. It will be purely theoretical, science in the highest degree with no utility - aristotle did not like application. Knowledge of a superior, the knowledge of a noble, superior person. Wisdom is divine knowledge, devine in two ways. Aristotle against plato - plato says being = idea. To say that only ideas, immaterial and changeless, are real seem unrealistic. How does the idea explain the apple being. Aristotle states - how can ideas be any less real than any tangible thing.
