PHIL249 Study Guide - Hylomorphism, Hyle, Nominalism
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Greek is about trying to know things as they undergo change. There seems to be some kind of permanence and immutability to things, despite that they are changing and dying. Everything is undergoing a process of corruption / destruction / change. Pythagoras - the stability of things. geometry. the triangularity of triangles. harmonies that attain between different notes. Aristotle - will give his own gloss on this. Form - eidos in plato - idea, and morphe in aristotle - shape. (remember this is where stability comes from)