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Ancient Philosophy
Final Review
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Philosophy
Undergraduate 2
12/18/2010

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Four Causes
Definition
Material, Formal, Efficient, and Final
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Material Cause
Definition
What something is made of
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Formal Cause
Definition
Shape, or configuration, form/model
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Efficient Cause
Definition
Primary source of change or staying the same/first effects the change
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Final Cause
Definition
The things purpose/ what something is for
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Three Principles
Definition
Form, Privation, and Matter 
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Form
Definition
The idea of pattern of the mature specimen
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Privation
Definition
the absence or lack their of of the form
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Matter
Definition
the underlying thing that remains constant throughout process of change
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Aspects of Flattery in Gorgias
Definition
Oratory, pastry baking, cosmetics, sophistry
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Aspects Of Knowledge/Craft in Gorgias
Definition
Justice, Medicine Gymnastics, Legislation
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Immortality of the soul
Definition

Opposites are generated by opposites

Life and Death are Opposites

From being alive, one becomes dead

From being dead one becomes alive

So the soul must exist while disembodied

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The theory of recollection
Definition
Recollection is when we remember something that we have previously forgotten by being reminded by something else. Since we can see form birth but do not have knowledge of the Forms, we must have had knowledge of them at birth and then forgotten them at birth
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Traits of the Forms
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Deathless, Intelligible, Uniform, Indissoluble, Unchanging
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Traits of the Particulars
Definition
Mortal, Multiform, Unintelligible, Soluble, Changing
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Five parts of virtue
Definition
wisdom, piety, temperance, courage, and justice
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Three Parts of the Soul
Definition
The nutritive, the Appetitive, The Rational
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Nutritive Part
Definition
deals with nutrition and growth
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Appetitive
Definition
governs impulses
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Rational
Definition
Controls impulses
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