Answer each of the questions below writing about 5-8 pages in total (double-spaced, 12pt font).

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Answer each of the questions below writing about 5-8 pages in total (double-spaced, 12pt font). Be as complete and concise as possible. Do not preface your answers with superfluous introductory remarks: in each of your responses, simply answer the exact question (or questions) asked.

1. For (a)-(j) below, state which category (according to Aristotle) the indicated item belongs to.

(a) warm

(b) warmed

(c) at the summit of Everest

(d) this wagon

(e) the weight of this wagon

(f) partner

(g) 3 cats

(h) 3 o’clock

(i) wise

(j) soul


2. Submit the four clearest and most instructive examples you can think of to illustrate Aristotle’s conceptions of (a) material, (b) formal, (c) efficient, and (d) final causation. For each of the 4 examples you submit, write 1-3 sentences explaining why the example in question does in fact exemplify the variety of causation in question. The examples should be your own.

3. Drawing on Physics II.1, analyze and explain Aristotle’s distinction between (i) things that exist/occur by nature, and (ii) things that exist/occur but not by nature.

4. Analyze and explain Aristotle’s De Anima II.1 account of what makes some- thing a soul. What, on this account, is the relationship between (i) an embodied soul, (ii) the living organism in which it’s embodied, and (iii) the matter of that living organism.

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