PHIL250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Unmoved Mover, Ousia
5 Jan 2016
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There is no clear rule/criteria as what you should do in this book. His aim is the good life, how to live it, how you should be. It seems the good life is politics but it also shows itself to be just a part of it. Aristotle method: starts with people"s opinions, interrogates them, tries to find what"s common in them because there has to be some truth in opinions and sensible particulars. Start with what"s knowable for us: sensible particulars, primary sense of ousia, primordial, can change, has emotion: its potency that could be realized because its partly matter and form; immediately knowable but not knowable in itself. Matter is not intelligible, irrational in a certain sense and can only know it by forms. Unmoved mover is thinking that thinks thinking, beautiful, is absolutely one, indivisible, full activity/being-at-work while staying itself, everything tries to be like it, everything owes its formal being to it/nous.
