aristotle - glossary

actuality

when something with potential achieves its purpose/telos - fulfilment of possibility

attraction

prime mover attracts everything in the universe like a cat with a saucer of milk

contingent

subject to change
contingent beings = dont have to exist

efficient cause

an agent that brings something into being

empiricism

a posteriori knowledge

comes from senses + observation

eudaimonia

human flourishing

final cause

purpose/telos

form

aristotle - forms cannot exist independently

formal cause

the form or essence of a thing

material ause

matter/substance something is made from

motus

motion

necessary

essential

neccesary beings have to exist (god)

potentiality

the ability to be able to become something else

final cause is full actuality

prime mover

responsible for all motion in the universe + everything is attracted to it

reality

aristotle - this is the real world, there is no noeton

sustain

to support

telos

purpose (final cause)

teleology

the study of design or purpose

transcendent

beyond or above the range of normal or merely physical human experience (god is transcendent)