Exam 5: Aristotle: Reason and Nature

Aristotle believes that moral virtues can best be acquired through practice and habit.

Aristotle's logical system is built out of classes of things and their relations.

One way Aristotle accounts for change is in terms of causes.

The __________ cause tells us "that for the sake of which" something is.

Aristotle argues that the good life is lived according to __________ .

To say that nature is teleological is to say it is directed __________.

The words that name classes, or categories, of things are called names.

Aristotle distinguishes between a(n) __________ and functioning well.

Aristotle is credited with inventing __________.

Aristotle asserts that substance consists of form plus __________ and __________.

Aristotle wrote treatises on zoology, music, mathematics, law, and many other topics in addition to his philosophical works.

The heart of Aristotle's logical system is the __________.

According to Aristotle, the final cause of everything is the Unmoved Mover.

__________ is, Aristotle tells us, "something complete and self-sufficient."

For Aristotle, the primary explanation of the development of all living things is __________.

The heart of Aristotle's logical system is the syllogism.

According to Aristotle, __________ is the answer to the question, "What is being?"

The __________ cause explains why something is the way it is by citing the structure and properties that make it when it is.

Aristotle rejects Plato's view that reality is objective and knowledge is possible.

For Aristotle, scientific knowledge is not so much knowing that something __________ but __________.