How do they “bring within the compass of philosophic knowledge a world of unstable phenomena”?
For this assignment, please compose an essay of three (3) pages in length in response to the following prompt.
Your essay should include an introductory paragraph with a clear statement of thesis, several paragraphs with strong topic sentences providing evidence in support of your thesis, consideration and refutation of a counterargument, and a conclusion.
Please use MLA formatting and double-space your text in a standard 12-point font. If you would like to write on any other theme in our readings from Guthrie this week, please send me a note by email and propose it! On pp. 119 and following, Guthrie explain how Aristotle, once he rejected Plato’s belief in a World of Forms, needed to find a way to “bring within the compass of philosophic knowledge a world of unstable phenomena, always changing, coming into existence and passing away again, never the same for two instants together.”
According to Guthrie, Aristotle gives a twofold answer to this question, based on his conceptions of immanent form and potentiality. Based on Guthrie’s presentation in the subsequent pages, explain these two concepts.
How do they “bring within the compass of philosophic knowledge a world of unstable phenomena”?
