Sunday, November 29, 2009

Aristotle Exercise

PART I: For the first six paragraphs of the Metaphysics, name each paragraph. Identify two or three key words. Explain Aristotle’s basic point in a sentence or two, and bring it home with an illustration/analogy to contemporary life.

1. All men naturally desire knowledge...
2. Now animals are by nature…
3. Thus the other animals…
4. Art is produced when…
5. It would seem that for practical purposes…
6. In general the sign of knowledge…

PART II: Identify and distinguish Aristotle's four levels of knowledge.