Metaphysics

A - substance as ____

primary essence of things

A - Matter and form

everything = matter (made of) and form (esscense)

A - Potentiality and actuality

everything has potential

A - Unmoved Mover

final cause of all motion: perfect, eternal, moves everything without being moved

A - what does he reject?

Forms - focuses on empiricism

A - Who does he respond to?

Plato

A - What are the four causes?

Material, formal, efficient and final

A - who does he balance?

H and Parm

H - change is ____

illusion and a part of life

H - stillness =

illusion

H - who does he influence?

Plato

H - Panta Rhei

“everything flows”

H - theory of knowledge 

study of what knowledge is and how we aquire it

Plato - allegory of the cave

true knowledge comes from forms, human mistakes shadow reality

Plato - whose ideas did he expand

Socrates

Plato - World of Forms

reality divided = physical world (imperfect, changing) and forms (eternal, perfect)

Z - motion is

an illusion and relative to the observer

Z - racecourse

one must reach the halfway of the halfway point

Z - who did he defend?

Parm - m and c are illusions

Z - who did he help?

A develop theories of motion

S - who was his student?

Plato

S - unexamined life

not worth living

S - his method 

questions guide thinking and more rational beleifs 

S - impiety

not belieiving in gods, introduces new ideas

Parm - who was his student?

Zeno

Parm - who did he oppose?

H’s flux 

The One

single, eternal, and unchanging reality

Parm - who did he influence?

Plato’s forms

Parm - how did he argue that change isnt real?

strict logic 

Parm - what was he the father of?

Metaphysics