PHILOSOPHY-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 1

PHILOSOPHY-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 1

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Plato and Aristotle: Ideas; Substance; Form and Matter; Causation;Actuality and Potentiality

  1. Explain Plato’s ontological theory of Forms. Is knowledge one of the Forms ? Explain. (2013: 12 ½)
  2. Discuss how by refuting different concepts of Substances Aristotle establishes his own theory of a Substance ? (2013/10)
  3. Discuss Aristotle’s metaphysical theory as a polemic against Plato’s theory of ideas.(2012/15)
  4.  How does Plato relate the world of ideas to the empirical world? Discuss. (2011/15)