philosophy

3. Potentiality v Actuality Potentiality - this wood COULD become a rocking chair if it is turned into one Actuality - it has become a lovely bed!

4. Development of form Potentiality Actuality

5. Aristotle's philosophy was based on his key distinction between MATTER and FORM : MATTER = The raw materials (e.g. wood) FORM = Bedness

6. Aristotle's philosophy was based on his key distinction between MATTER and FORM : Matter = Fur Form = cat

7. Telos = purpose/goal The telos of the acorn is to become the oak tree- the acorn is POTENTIALLY an oak tree

8. The form of a human would be when we actualise our potential: Like the Butterfly actualising the potential of the caterpillar

11. Flesh and bones are the Matter of human organs and limbs but an arm is not a mere heap of bones. It is flesh and bones organised in such a way (Form)

12. Soul = Form

13. That is why we can dismiss as unnecessary the question of whether the soul and the body are one: it as though we were to ask whether the wax and its shape are one

14. Soul is not a special ingredient which breathes life into a lifeless body; it is a certain aspect of a living organism. It forms a unified whole

22. Humans (reasoning) Animals (sensation, eg. Pleasure) Plants (Nutrition, growth, reproduction)

23. Exercising reasoning is essentially a human actively demonstrating soul (actuality)

27. At the end of the film the main character is given a frontal lobotomy in the mental hospital- his friend decides to smother him with a pillow as he is less than human