Chapter 5 Quiz

Aristotle: Reason and Nature
. Aristotle is credited with inventing __________.

. According to Aristotle, __________ gives us the raw materials for knowledge.

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

. Aristotle calls a proof a demonstration when __________ and the conclusion follows deductively.

. According to Aristotle, "What is being?" is the most important question of __________.

. In Aristotle's terminology, __________ refers to the shape, pattern, or function of material stuff.

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

. That which initiates or is the source of a change is called the __________ cause.

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

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

. Aristotle distinguishes between instrumental and __________ goods.

. Aristotle thinks __________ is the highest good for a human being.

. According to Aristotle, courage is __________.

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

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

. According to Aristotle, the highest good for human beings is pleasure and the absence of pain.

. Aristotle says that virtue is a mean lying between two vices.

. According to Aristotle, the objects around us are insubstantial, fleeting amalgams of atoms.

. Aristotle thinks that the final cause of something is the material out of which it is made.

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

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

. Aristotle thinks that reason unaided by sensation is what yields knowledge.

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

. According to Aristotle, we always desire happiness for its own sake.

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

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