PHIL 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Christian Mortalism, Unmoved Mover, Techne

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2140
• Professor: Kenneth N.Dorter

Document Summary

The world we think about ideas and concepts. Hagle: the real is the rational, the rational is the real. To define something: it must always apply to it, and never to anything else. But nothing will always be true of us and only us. (maybe the soul, but then you would have to define a soul. Plato: platonic forms can be divine (we possess a form for anything which has the same name. Aristotle: to be real is to be an individual. Aristotle wants to recast platonist philosophy from universals to individuals, its alike but different: Plato: looks at the world through rationality. They are different: empirical, problem with universals, god. Aristotle was thee science text, until galalao, aristotle accepts the idea of forms, because without forms, you cannot make generalizations. Everyone is unique but that makes it impossible to generalize. Were all different, but we are all people.