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Philosophy: The Power of Ideas
Philosophy: The Power of Ideas, 5/e
Brooke Moore
Kenneth Bruder
Aristotle

Short Answer



1

What are the four Aristotelian causes of a baseball?
2

Can there be essences without existence?
3

How can human beings have three souls: vegetable, animal, and rational (nous)?
4

Review Aristotle's ten categories of being. Could alien intelligences think about things in terms of different categories?
5

Are universals real? In what sense?
6

Explain what Aristotle means by "intuition." Do humans have intuition?
7

How does Aristotle's view of the relationship between matter and form differ from Plato's?
8

How does Aristotle explain change?
9

How does Aristotle use the "Third Man" argument to criticize Plato's theory of Forms?
10

How does Aristotle distinguish universals from particulars?








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