BIO 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Essentialism, Great Chain Of Being, Innatism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO 1130
• Professor: Jon Houseman

Document Summary

Animals are born from the sea, by solar heat on wateras they aged, they migrated onto mainland. When the bark burst, they survived briefly in their new lifestyle. Humans originated from fishes that tried to invade mainland. Water is the central element of this universe: life came from w ter. All structures of the world (matter) are made of four elements: earth, water, air, fire, these elements are simple, eternal and unalterable. Two major forces interact constantly on these elements: love (attraction or harmony, hate (repulsion or discord) These elements, and the forces between them are what created living beings, humans: interactions of forces are important. Thought everything we see can be divisible. Two realities: atoms, emptiness: space where atoms can be attached together. Matter: group of atoms in movement: an atom cannot be created of destroyed (atomic theory). Atoms have an intrinsic property (a force) that causes them to agglutinate and creates shapes.