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Mar 2024
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Ep. 337: Aristotle on Primary Being (Par...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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Continuing on Aristotle's Metaphysics, Book 7 (Zeta), on essences and what sorts of things have them.

Contrasting with Plato, Aristotle believes that some changing, visible things have forms. How do they get them? Well, they're received from some previous thing that has a comparable form, e.g. a child from its parents, or perhaps a form could come from a creator's mind.

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