Aristotle s views on god

    • [DOC File]Philosophy: Basic Questions; Prof

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      a. Aristotle’s view that being is _____ reflects the fact that each social class is defined by a particular _____. b. And Aristotle’s view that the best activity is study might be an attempt to _____ the activities of the ruling _____ class, of which he was a member.


    • [DOC File]History of Philosophy: Renaissance through Enlightenment ...

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      Explain, in your own words, some of Aristotle’s reasons for denying that there could be a void, or vacuum. (Note that Aristotle’s views on this issue proved very influential throughout the history of physics and astronomy.) Try to distinguish his various arguments for this conclusion here. Physics Book VII, Chapter 1:


    • [DOC File]World Civilization Benchmark #1 (California Standard 10-1)

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      4 Which feature of modern Western democratic government reflects Aristotle’s views as given above? A. the direct election of members of the legislature. B. the power of the courts to review the law. C. the granting of emergency powers to the chief executive. D. the requirement that government actions must adhere to the law.


    • [DOC File]Developing and Strengthening Belief in God: I

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      Aristotle’s system was a spatially finite universe in a steady state; it had existed unchanged through eternity, and its perfect motions had no beginning or end. ... One of the chief objections which might be justly argued against the views maintained in this volume … one, namely the distinctness of specific forms, and their not being ...


    • [DOC File]Sophie’s World Questions

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      6. Use modern science to support both Plato and Aristotle’s views of an “idea”. 7. Do you agree with the claim: “Rationalist philosophers want to attribute what they can not deduce by reason to God.” Or is this. 12. Would believing in a mechanistic world view make one more apt to be religious, or less? Why? 13.


    • [DOC File]Aristotle

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      Aristotle’s Method. Aristotle’s method of investigation varied from one natural science to another, depending on the problems encountered, but it usually included: defining the subject matter . considering the difficulties involved by reviewing the generally accepted views on the subject, and suggestions of earlier writers


    • [DOC File]The Concept of the Divine Energies - University of Kentucky

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      In a sense, the notion that God is energy is thoroughly traditional. The term ‘energy’ comes from the Greek energeia, a term coined by Aristotle. Aristotle’s earliest works use it to mean the active exercise of a capacity, such as that for sight or thought, as distinct from the mere possession of the capacity.


    • [DOC File]History of Philosophy and Christian Thought

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      (3) Unlike Aristotle's god, the God of the Bible is not so threatened by the world. He can get involved with the world, because he is a person, not a mere abstract principle. And as a person, he rules all things. g. The prime mover is pure form no matter. Thus perfectly actualized, but also abstract. 7. Human Knowledge: a.


    • [DOC File]NICOMACHEAN ETHICS, BOOK I

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      OUTLINE OF ARISTOTLE’S NICOMACHEAN ETHICS (Martin Ostwald translation) by Robert Greene ... Chapter 4: Happiness is the good, but many views are held about it. Most people, both the masses and educated people, agree that the good for humans is happiness. ... Book XII of the Metaphysics, where he describes the life of God or the divine as “a ...


    • [DOC File]Aristotle’s Politics

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      For close to 300 years, Aristotle’s work was lost to the world, until discovered by a Roman scholar in 100 BCE. The order in which Aristotle’s works appear in the Greek manuscripts goes back to early editors and commentators during the era of the late Roman empire. As such, the titles to Aristotle’s work were provided by these editors.


    • [DOC File]Aristotle - A Level Philosophy

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      The strongest case for such separation we may devise from Aristotle’s conception of God as form existing independently of matter. This is not something we can go into now. Not all forms are forms of material objects, and so some forms can exist independently of matter, e.g. final causes – the good.


    • [DOC File]Meditation Four:

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      (Look out! An almost unbelievable amount happens in Part II, ##21-25 and 36-40. Say “bye-bye” to virtually all of Aristotle’s physics, which had reigned supreme for almost 2000 years!) 9. In #21, Descartes overturns Aristotle’s view that the universe must be finite in size.


    • [DOC File]Sophie’s World Questions

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      4. Use modern science to support both Plato and Aristotle’s views of an “idea”. 5. Do you agree with the claim: “Rationalist philosophers want to attribute what they can not deduce by reason to God.” Or is this an inherently contradictory statement? 6. Would believing in a mechanistic world view make one more apt to be religious, or ...



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