Rather than a particulate structure, Aristotle suggested, all substances were composed of matter and form. He saw form as imprinted on matter, which itself consists of four “elements”: earth ...

Scholastics, following Aristotle, thought that objects were composed of matter and form. I.e., a computer is a bunch of metal and plastic and silicon and stuff (the matter), arranged in a ...

3 Aristotle distinguishes four causes or ... So the effect of the builder’s movements is to actualize the form of a house in matter for the sake of providing shelter and protection for a family. From ...

No single theological change even approaches the significance of the Jewish/Christian adaptation of the Greek philosophical notions of matter and form into body and soul. Thank you, Aristotle.

in the sense that he required nothing more than ordinary matter and its properties to explain life. He understands that for Aristotle the soul was its form (eidos, which can also mean species), th ...

Aristotle’s belief in an exotic form of matter in space is not so different from the picture scientists paint of the heavens today, albeit in a rather more rigorous and sophisticated theoretical ...

Arthur Herman's The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for ... of wisdom” or philosopher was the highest form of life. Plato taught his students that all of us want ...