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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Formal Cause | | | |  Formal Cause: Encyclopedia II - Aristotle - Aristotle's ethicsAlthough Aristotle wrote several works on ethics, the major one was the Nicomachean Ethics, which is considered one of Aristotle's greatest works; it discusses virtues. The ten books which comprise it are based on notes from his lectures at the Lyceum and were either edited by or dedicated to Aristotle's son, Nicomachus.
Aristotle believed that ethical knowledge is not certain knowledge (like metaphysics and epistemology) but is general knowledge. Also, as it is not a theoretical discipline, he thought a person ha ...
See also:Aristotle, Aristotle - Biography, Aristotle - Early life and studies at the Academy, Aristotle - Aristotle as philosopher and tutor, Aristotle - Founder and master of the Lyceum, Aristotle - Methodology, Aristotle - Aristotle's epistemology, Aristotle - Logic, Aristotle - Science, Aristotle - Aristotle's metaphysics, Aristotle - Aristotle's four causes, Aristotle - The difference between natural objects and artifacts, Aristotle - Modes of causation, Aristotle - Chance, Aristotle - The Five Elements, Aristotle - Aristotle's ethics, Aristotle - Nicomachean ethics, Aristotle - Aristotle's critics, Aristotle - Aristotle's mistake, Aristotle - Bibliography, Aristotle - Major works, Aristotle - Specific editions, Aristotle - Named after Aristotle Read more here: » Aristotle: Encyclopedia II - Aristotle - Aristotle's ethics |
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Aristotle - Logic.
Main article: Aristotelian logic
For more details on this topic, see Non-Aristotelian logic.
Aristotle "says that 'on the subject of reasoning' he 'had nothing else on an earlier date to speak about'" (Bocheński, 1951). However, Plato reports that syntax was thought of before him, by Prodikos of Keos, who was concerned by the right use of words. Logic seems to have emerged from dialectics, the earlier philosophers used concepts like ...
See also:Aristotle, Aristotle - Biography, Aristotle - Early life and studies at the Academy, Aristotle - Aristotle as philosopher and tutor, Aristotle - Founder and master of the Lyceum, Aristotle - Methodology, Aristotle - Aristotle's epistemology, Aristotle - Logic, Aristotle - Science, Aristotle - Aristotle's metaphysics, Aristotle - Aristotle's four causes, Aristotle - The difference between natural objects and artifacts, Aristotle - Modes of causation, Aristotle - Chance, Aristotle - The Five Elements, Aristotle - Aristotle's ethics, Aristotle - Nicomachean ethics, Aristotle - Aristotle's critics, Aristotle - Aristotle's mistake, Aristotle - Bibliography, Aristotle - Major works, Aristotle - Specific editions, Aristotle - Named after Aristotle Read more here: » Aristotle: Encyclopedia II - Aristotle - Aristotle's epistemology |
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| | | | | Formal Cause: Encyclopedia II - Ship of Theseus - A modern embellishment If Theseus paid a nontransferable fee, allowed to be used for only one ship, for the privilege of docking in a particular harbor, would he violate the non-transferability of his license if repeated replacement of boards eventually had the result described above?
The philosophical point of this example is that it sometimes makes sense to regard an object's identity as the same for a particular purpose ...
See also:Ship of Theseus, Ship of Theseus - A modern embellishment, Ship of Theseus - Heraclitus, Ship of Theseus - USS Constitution, Ship of Theseus - George Washington's axe, Ship of Theseus - The Tin Woodman's story, Ship of Theseus - Airplanes, Ship of Theseus - Automobiles, Ship of Theseus - Digital rights management, Ship of Theseus - Human identity, Ship of Theseus - Rock groups, Ship of Theseus - Sports teams, Ship of Theseus - Only Fools and Horses BBC TV, Ship of Theseus - Aristotle's causes Read more here: » Ship of Theseus: Encyclopedia II - Ship of Theseus - A modern embellishment |
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| | | | | Formal Cause: Encyclopedia II - Aristotle - Aristotle's metaphysics
Aristotle - Aristotle's four causes.
Aristotle names four "causes" of things, but the word cause (Greek: αἰτἱα, aitia) is not used in the modern sense of "cause and effect", under which causes are events or states of affairs. Rather, the four causes are like different ways of explaining something:
The Material Cause (That from which it comes)
This is the material that makes up an object, for example, "the br ...
See also:Aristotle, Aristotle - Biography, Aristotle - Early life and studies at the Academy, Aristotle - Aristotle as philosopher and tutor, Aristotle - Founder and master of the Lyceum, Aristotle - Methodology, Aristotle - Aristotle's epistemology, Aristotle - Logic, Aristotle - Science, Aristotle - Aristotle's metaphysics, Aristotle - Aristotle's four causes, Aristotle - The difference between natural objects and artifacts, Aristotle - Modes of causation, Aristotle - Chance, Aristotle - The Five Elements, Aristotle - Aristotle's ethics, Aristotle - Nicomachean ethics, Aristotle - Aristotle's critics, Aristotle - Aristotle's mistake, Aristotle - Bibliography, Aristotle - Major works, Aristotle - Specific editions, Aristotle - Named after Aristotle Read more here: » Aristotle: Encyclopedia II - Aristotle - Aristotle's metaphysics |
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| | | | | Formal Cause: Encyclopedia II - Aristotle - Methodology Aristotle defines philosophy in terms of essence, saying that philosophy is "the science of the universal essence of that which is actual". Plato had defined it as the "science of the idea", meaning by idea what we should call the unconditional basis of phenomena. Both pupil and master regard philosophy as concerned with the universal; Aristotle, however, finds the universal in particular things, and called it the essence of things, while Plato finds that the universal exists apart from particular things, and is related to them as their prot ...
See also:Aristotle, Aristotle - Biography, Aristotle - Early life and studies at the Academy, Aristotle - Aristotle as philosopher and tutor, Aristotle - Founder and master of the Lyceum, Aristotle - Methodology, Aristotle - Aristotle's epistemology, Aristotle - Logic, Aristotle - Science, Aristotle - Aristotle's metaphysics, Aristotle - Aristotle's four causes, Aristotle - The difference between natural objects and artifacts, Aristotle - Modes of causation, Aristotle - Chance, Aristotle - The Five Elements, Aristotle - Aristotle's ethics, Aristotle - Nicomachean ethics, Aristotle - Aristotle's critics, Aristotle - Aristotle's mistake, Aristotle - Bibliography, Aristotle - Major works, Aristotle - Specific editions, Aristotle - Named after Aristotle Read more here: » Aristotle: Encyclopedia II - Aristotle - Methodology |
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| | | | | Formal Cause: Encyclopedia II - Ship of Theseus - Only Fools and Horses BBC TV In one episode of Only Fools and Horses, the road sweeper proudly displays a medal to anyone who will look, which he was awarded by the local council for having contributed to the community by using the same brush for the past 20 years. He then proudly holds up the brush and claims "Maintained it for 20 years. This old broom's had 17 new heads and 14 new handles in its time." When Sid inquires how it can be classed as the same brush, Trigger angrily shows him a picture of him receiving the medal and ...
See also:Ship of Theseus, Ship of Theseus - A modern embellishment, Ship of Theseus - Heraclitus, Ship of Theseus - USS Constitution, Ship of Theseus - George Washington's axe, Ship of Theseus - The Tin Woodman's story, Ship of Theseus - Airplanes, Ship of Theseus - Automobiles, Ship of Theseus - Digital rights management, Ship of Theseus - Human identity, Ship of Theseus - Rock groups, Ship of Theseus - Sports teams, Ship of Theseus - Only Fools and Horses BBC TV, Ship of Theseus - Aristotle's causes Read more here: » Ship of Theseus: Encyclopedia II - Ship of Theseus - Only Fools and Horses BBC TV |
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Aristotle - Logic.
Main article: Aristotelian logic
For more details on this topic, see Non-Aristotelian logic.
Aristotle "says that 'on the subject of reasoning' he 'had nothing else on an earlier date to speak about'" (Bocheński, 1951). However, Plato reports that syntax was thought of before him, by Prodikos of Keos, who was concerned by the right use of words. Logic seems to have emerged from dialectics; the earlier philosophers used concepts like ...
See also:Aristotle, Aristotle - Biography, Aristotle - Early life and studies at the Academy, Aristotle - Aristotle as philosopher and tutor, Aristotle - Founder and master of the Lyceum, Aristotle - Methodology, Aristotle - Aristotle's epistemology, Aristotle - Logic, Aristotle - Science, Aristotle - Aristotle's metaphysics, Aristotle - Aristotle's four causes, Aristotle - The difference between natural objects and artifacts, Aristotle - Modes of causation, Aristotle - Chance, Aristotle - The Five Elements, Aristotle - Aristotle's ethics, Aristotle - Nicomachean ethics, Aristotle - Aristotle's critics, Aristotle - The Loss of his works, Aristotle - Aristotle's mistake, Aristotle - Bibliography, Aristotle - Major works, Aristotle - Specific editions, Aristotle - Named for Aristotle Read more here: » Aristotle: Encyclopedia II - Aristotle - Aristotle's epistemology |
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