PHIL 2010 Study Guide - Final Guide: Determinism, Teleology, Baruch Spinoza

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2010
• Professor: Athanasios Samaras

Document Summary

Plato thinks the forms is independent from the human mind. Aristotle thinks the forms is dependent from the human mind. If you add balls, the balls are the properties. Aristotle looks at all individual things (substances) to those substances, i can give properties to. Essential property: the tail of a squirrel, 4 legs, 2 eyes, etc. Accidental property: brown/white, tall/small (has this property, but this does not necessarily make it a squirrel) Nature created the squirrels because they have a purpose in the world. Teleology: everything/everyone has a goal (nature has a goal) Seeds have potential to become a tree, but not yet. I am an uga student and a potential graduate. Nature determines if a seed is a tree. There are external factors that prevent it from being a tree. But still, the seeds have goals and that cannot be changed. If you can find out what the essential property is, you can know the purpose of the squirrels.