Aristotle Research Paper

1. In my opinion, Aristotle believes that in the knowing process, it is important to understand the real objects rather than some undefined unification of knowledge. It is more significant to be able to gain knowledge on the actual world of what we perceive than some abstract transcendent ideals, for example “Forms” by Plato.

2 Aristotle’s philosophy is more scientific, in my opinion. He considers object as it is, how it looks like, what it’s made of, how it is used. Aristotle gives a more realistic idea for science to approach the real world and gain more knowledge about the real world, or in another world Aristotle gives a scientific understanding on many daily experience and objects. Especially, the four causes by Aristotle are excellent

The Material Cause of the house would be the bricks and cement. The Formal Cause of the house would be the rectangular shape with the pyramid top. The Efficient Cause of the house is the work of construction to build the materials into the house form. The Final Cause of the house is the place for human to live. As I mentioned above, these four causes are helpful in terms of scientific method. Again, ultimately, science’s purpose is to find the four causes of many daily superficial and unorganized objects/events. As a scientific based person, the application of Aristotle’s four causes is magnificent and potential for scientific field, because it pushes us to ask questions and perform experiments in order to illustrate our

Aristotle refers the idea of a “substance” as the basic building blocks for the matter and forms. Substance is a fundamental entity, which constructs the matter and forms of the objects. Forms is, in another word, an organized structure of substances that gives the object’s shape and structure. The matter is the material of which the object is made of. The relationship between substance, form, and matter are distinct but inseparable. Both form and matter are constructed on the substance, however, in a different perspective of viewing: Form is the structure and matter is formed into substance. Aristotle also introduces the concept of “actuality” and “potentiality” in his Metaphysics. The “actuality” is the presence of the object while the “potentiality” is the possible of the object to become by means of changing. For example, a corn seed appears to be a little round yellow object. The “actuality” of a corn seed is a corn seed, or the “actuality” is the Material and Formal Causes of the object. The “potentiality” of a corn seed, in other way, is the corn plant. The corn seed has potential to grown into corn plant, thus, ultimately it could be a corn plant. That’s the