Philosophy of Nature Past Paper PDF

1. Is philosophy a science? Why or why not? 2. What makes philosophy different from other sciences? 3. What is the material object of philosophy of nature? 4. What is the formal object *quo* of philosophy of nature? 5. What is a substance? How do you define it? 6. Give some examples of su...

1. Is philosophy a science? Why or why not? 2. What makes philosophy different from other sciences? 3. What is the material object of philosophy of nature? 4. What is the formal object *quo* of philosophy of nature? 5. What is a substance? How do you define it? 6. Give some examples of substances. 7. What is an accident? How do you define it? 8. Give some examples of accidents. 9. What elements are always present in change? 10. What is the subject, starting point, and ending point of substantial change? 11. What is prime matter? 12. What is the subject, starting point, and ending point of accidental change? 13. What is secondary (or informed) matter? 14. What is privation? What does it have to do with accidental change? 15. What is movement? Is every change a movement? 16. Give Aristotle's definition of movement and explain it. 17. Give Aquinas' definition of movement and explain it. 18. What are the predicaments? 19. What is *substance*? What is a first substance? A second substance? 20. What is *quality*? Give two examples of quality. 21. What is *relation*? What sorts of relations are there? Give examples of each. 22. What is *ubi*? Give a couple of examples. 23. What is *quando*? Give an example. 24. What is *situs*? Give some examples. What is the difference between *ubi* and *situs?* 25. What is *habitus*? Give an example for an animal and an example for man. 26. What is *actio*? What is *passio*? Give some examples. What is the difference between the two? 27. What are the predicables? 28. What is *hylomorphism*? What do you think *universal hylomorphism* is? 29. What is a cause? 30. What is an element? 31. What is a principle? 32. What is a condition? 33. What is an occasion? 34. What is act? 35. What is potency? 36. How does act have priority over potency (3)? 37. What limits act? 38. What are the four causes? 39. What is the material cause? 40. What is an efficient cause? 41. Name the two efficient causes. 42. What is a final cause? 43. Name the two final causes. 44. Why is the final cause called the *causa causarum*? 45. Why is the final cause said to be the first in intention but the last in execution? 46. What is an exemplar cause? 47. With a house or boat example, example the four major sorts of causes 48. What is responsible for individuation? 49. Can you sort-of-kind-of-have a part of a substantial form? 50. How do we describe individuals of the same species? They are \_\_\_ the same, but \_\_\_ distinct. 51. What is an aggregate? 52. What do we mean by presence by power? 53. What is a quantitative part? 54. What does it mean that we can see a cause present in the effect? 55. What is Aristotle's definition of place? What does it matter? 56. What does it mean that something is anti-natural?