Foundations of Western Thought: Six Major Philosophers. [Selection of Readings]James Gordon Clapp |
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... matter ( hyle ) or proximate matter ( prote hyle ) -and ( 2 ) the power to function in a certain way or ways - this power actually residing in a particular body Aristotle calls form ( morphe or eidos ) . When form and matter are united ...
... matter ( hyle ) or proximate matter ( prote hyle ) -and ( 2 ) the power to function in a certain way or ways - this power actually residing in a particular body Aristotle calls form ( morphe or eidos ) . When form and matter are united ...
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... matter for their first principle , nevertheless each thing has some matter peculiar to it ; e.g. , " the sweet " or " the viscous " is the proximate matter of mucus , and “ the bitter " or some such thing is that of bile — although ...
... matter for their first principle , nevertheless each thing has some matter peculiar to it ; e.g. , " the sweet " or " the viscous " is the proximate matter of mucus , and “ the bitter " or some such thing is that of bile — although ...
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... matter really is as either Descartes , Galileo , or even later philosophers and physicists describe it , then that matter certainly cannot think . Perhaps this issue is clearly disclosed by several apparently contradictory statements of ...
... matter really is as either Descartes , Galileo , or even later philosophers and physicists describe it , then that matter certainly cannot think . Perhaps this issue is clearly disclosed by several apparently contradictory statements of ...
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absolute action actually admit Agathon Alcibiades Anaxagoras animal appear argument Aristodemus Aristophanes Aristotle attributes body called categorical imperative cause Cebes certainly Cleanthes clearly colour conceive concept concerned consider contrary Crito David Hume definition Descartes desire distinct divine doubt earth Echecrates effect Eryximachus essence eternal exist experience fact faculty false feel formula happiness Hence honour human Hume Hylas ideas imagine impossible intellect intelligible judgment Kant kind knowledge mathematics matter mean merely metaphysics mind moral motion nature never not-being object opinion ousia pain particular perceive perception perfect Phaedo Phaedrus Philonous philosophers Plato pleasure possess possible potentially present principle priori pure reason qualities question rational regard replied scepticism sensation sense sensible things Simmias Socrates sort soul speak species Stranger substance suppose synthetic proposition term Theaetetus thought tion true truth understand universe virtue whole words