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Ancient Greek Philosophy and Aristotelian Psychology
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Ancient Greek Philosophy and Aristotelian Psychology
Ancient Greek Philosophy and Aristotelian Psychology
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What is the core idea of early Greek presocratics regarding sources of reality?
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Reality arises from natural substances and natural principles
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What does Anaximander's fisis imply about its capability?
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It could become anything from a basic substance
3
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What is Parménides's central epistemology?
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Knowledge comes from rational thinking; sensory experience is illusory
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What did Zeno of Elea emphasize through his arguments?
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Motion is an illusion; logic and reason are correct over senses
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What fundamental claim did Pythagoras make about the universe?
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Numbers and numerical relations explain everything; numbers exist independently of senses
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What dualist view did Pythagoras propose?
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A permanent abstract realm and a changing empirical, knowable by senses
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What is the basic view of Empedocles about the world’s composition and forces?
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Four elements (earth, fire, air, water) and two cosmic powers: love and strife
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Who offered an early theory of perception involving emanations called eidola?
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Empedocles
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How are objects perceived according to Empedocles's view?
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Emanations enter the blood via pores and are perceived in the heart
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What is Plato's Theory of Forms?
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Empirical world reflects pure, abstract forms; true knowledge is of forms
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How does Plato view knowledge versus empirical science?
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Knowledge is through rational thought; empirical science is discouraged
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What question concerns knowing the forms beyond sensory experience?
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How can forms be known without sensory experience?
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What is the overarching view about reality and truth attributed to Idealists, Nat-i-vists, and Rationalists in this content?
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Reality is formed by ideas; truth is innate and rational
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What is Aristotle credited with in relation to psychology?
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Authoring De Anima; early psychology; real and knowable essences
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What are the four causes in Aristotelian philosophy?
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Material, formal, efficient, final causes
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What is teleology in Aristotelian thought?
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Everything in nature aims toward a purpose or end (entelecheia)
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What are the three levels of soul in Aristotelian anthropology?
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Vegetative, sensitive, rational souls
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What does perception study in this context?
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How movement of objects stimulates senses; sensory experience needed for knowledge
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What are the levels of reasoning described in Perception section?
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Sensory information, common sense, passive reasoning, active reasoning
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Where did the concept of common sense as coordinating sensory input come from?
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From Aristotle's theory of perception and sense coordination
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What is the associationist view of memory and thought?
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Memory and complex thought explained by laws of association
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What is teleology as described by Aristotle in terms of natural beings?
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Everything exists with a purpose (entelequia) and moves toward its potential.
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What are the three kinds of causes in Aristotelian philosophy?
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Formal, efficient, and final causes.
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What is the meaning of the formal cause?
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The form or pattern of a thing.
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What is the meaning of the efficient cause?
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The force that transforms matter.
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What is the meaning of the final cause?
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The purpose for which something exists.
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Which part of Aristotle's teleology explains why a thing is the way it is?
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The formal cause.
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Which part of Aristotle's teleology explains how change occurs in matter?
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The efficient cause.
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Which part of Aristotle's teleology explains the goal or end state of a thing?
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The final cause.
30
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What disease or field notes describe teleology in natural beings?
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Natural teleology or teleological explanation of nature.