Post by Sheryl Yoast on Feb 26, 2009 15:24:13 GMT -5
Medieval Philosophy has to be the most confusing class I have ever taken. Everything stated is a contradiction and the diction my teacher is ridiculous. I feel the concepts could be explained a lot easier but I am totally lost and have gotten a 55 on the first two tests.
Here is an example of my notes. (I started falling asleep at number 6. Everything before that is copied off the board.)
1. What is that which is
Primary substance + distinct form essence for
Form only exists In the primary substance
-Not equivalent/identical to the primary substance
“I am a person but I am not humanity”
2. Form in no way participates. The primary substance participates
Primary Substance Participate/Forms don’t
Primary substance exists when it reaches it form of being
Composite being-form and matter
3. We can possess something different than what we are
We are not simply our essence
Primary subsentance posses more than form. …..(matter and accidents) forms are purely forms
4. To be something(tall, short) is different from just being (to be something just is as it is to be some thing)- kind of primary substance
5. Everything that participates in that which is being(form) with the result that it be, participates in something else with the result that it be something. Accidents
If a primary substance has to participate in his form in order to be then it has accidents
If you participate in humanity and you aren’t humanity you are going to be involved in accidents
6.Kinds of participation for composite being---------participate in form (e.x form humanity), participate in axiems
6. Being is other than the item itself-------primary substance
7. Being = form
Every single being- no distinction between thing itself and form.
Simple being=God
If x tends to, then The Same nature 20y
All things tend to the good
Some things are as good as nature
How are they good?
Substance vs Arostole-----Form and adccident
Beings good through essence or participation?
Thru themselves
-by nature
Substance maes the thing to be
If x trends something go well, to the goood
Here is an example of my notes. (I started falling asleep at number 6. Everything before that is copied off the board.)
1. What is that which is
Primary substance + distinct form essence for
Form only exists In the primary substance
-Not equivalent/identical to the primary substance
“I am a person but I am not humanity”
2. Form in no way participates. The primary substance participates
Primary Substance Participate/Forms don’t
Primary substance exists when it reaches it form of being
Composite being-form and matter
3. We can possess something different than what we are
We are not simply our essence
Primary subsentance posses more than form. …..(matter and accidents) forms are purely forms
4. To be something(tall, short) is different from just being (to be something just is as it is to be some thing)- kind of primary substance
5. Everything that participates in that which is being(form) with the result that it be, participates in something else with the result that it be something. Accidents
If a primary substance has to participate in his form in order to be then it has accidents
If you participate in humanity and you aren’t humanity you are going to be involved in accidents
6.Kinds of participation for composite being---------participate in form (e.x form humanity), participate in axiems
6. Being is other than the item itself-------primary substance
7. Being = form
Every single being- no distinction between thing itself and form.
Simple being=God
If x tends to, then The Same nature 20y
All things tend to the good
Some things are as good as nature
How are they good?
Substance vs Arostole-----Form and adccident
Beings good through essence or participation?
Thru themselves
-by nature
Substance maes the thing to be
If x trends something go well, to the goood
