What is education?

Education is the process of forming a human being for a specific purpose/

What are the three general types of education?
The three general types of education are, vocational training, formation for cit
izenship, liberal education
What is the purpose of vocational training?
To be a good worker.
What is the purpose of the formation for citizenship?
To be a good citizen
What is the purpose of a liberal education?
To be a good human being
Why is liberal education called liberal?
This education is called liberal, not because one is free to study whatever one
wants but rather, because, the study of the liberal education makes one most fre
.
What are the seven liberal arts that are traditionally part of a liberal educati
on?
What is the trivium and the quadrivium?
Trivium:
1. Grammar
2. Rhetoric
3. Logic
Quadrivium
1. Arithmetic
2. Geometry
3. Music
4. Astronomy
What is the division between the two groups of the quadrivium?
Pure math (arithmetic and geometry) and applied math (music and astronomy)
What is the highest form of natural knowledge of reality?
Philosophy
What are the two ways of understanding the liberal education?
1. Perfect the intellect
2. Perfect the will
In what way are we understanding the liberal education here?
We understand a liberal education as the pursuit of the perfection of the intell
ect (because the will should be subordinate to the intellect). In a Catholic set
ting there will be more of a focus on a moral theology than on understanding God
as he is in himself.
What is theology?
Theology is the highest supernatural knowledge of reality.
If emphasis is placed on the perfection of the intellect as the defining part of
what it is to be human, would ethics or metaphysics be the last course in the u
ndergraduate curriculum, as far as systematic courses go?
Ethics should be the last course in the curriculum as it is subordinate to metap
hysics.
What if primary emphasis is placed on the will and making one a moral person and
fitting member of society?
Then ethics would be taught first because it is more foundational where as metap
hics would be taught secondairly.
What does the word philosophy mean?
Philosophy is the love of wisdom.
What is wisdom?
Wisdom is defined as the knowledge of reality in terms of ultimate cause.
What is a cause?
A cause is an explanation or reason why something is the way that it is OR why s
omething is, at all.
What are the different types of causes?
The four different types of causes are material, formal, effecient/ agent, and f
inal.

What is a material cause?

A thing is what it is because of what it is made out of. e.g the metal
What is a formal cause?
The formal is that which gives something form. e.g. the knife
What is the efficient/agent cause?
The effecient/agent cause is the mover, that which imposes form on antohter matt
er e.g. the blacksmith that makes the knife.
What is the final cause?
The final cause is the reason why the agent cause acts at all, the reason why th
e agent cause did what it did. e.g. the want to produce a good knife.
The most ultimate is final, effecint is above formal and formal is above materia
l.
How is one type of cause more ultimate and basic than another?
By virtue of that which is more nessicary.
Is there a more and a less basic kind of material cause?
Yes--> the materiel cause of a substantial change is a cause in as more ultimate
cause than is the material cause of the acciddntail change, e.g. arm aptutaion
is more ulimate than losing five pounds
What is prime matter?
Prime matter is the material cause for substantial change.
What is secondary matter?
Secondary matter is the material cause for accidental change.
What are the types of formal causes?
They are substantial and accidential.
A things substantial form is more basic and ultimate than its accidential form.
Is there a more or less basic kind of efficnet cause?
There are more or less basic kinds of efficent causes, the blacksmith is the gre
ater efficent cause than his tools.
Are there also levles of final causality?
Yes, and happiness is the highest or most basiclevel of causaliy.
What is philosophy most intrested in?
Philosophy is in ulimate causes.
What is the ultimate efficient cause of being?
God.
What is the ultimate final cause?
God.
What are the parts of philosophy?
1.Systematic > The traditional parts of systamatic philophy are logic, philosoph
y of nature, metaphysics and ethics.
2.Historical > The traditional parts of historicccal Ancient, mid evil, modern,
and contemperary.
What is it that induction can be changed?
Induction explains the premise of a deductive argument.
What is man?
Man is a rational animal.
What is the order of mental acts making up an induction according to Aristotle?
What is induction?
induction> is the movement upward from the sensation of things to an intellctual
grasp of universal consepts.
What is the order of mental acts making up an induction according to Aristotle?
1. sense perception
2. memory
3. expierence
4. sientific knowlege
What is expeirence?
Origainized memories of a similar kind.
WHat is the division between the steps of an induction?
scientific knowlege is intellectual
Sense preseption, memory and, expierence are all of the senses.
What is the intellecutal act that grasps the primary premise called.

Intuition.
What is a syllogysm?
Perfect syllogysm> is one in which what has been stated is enough to show that t
he conclusion follows.
Imperfect syllogysm> is one in wchich we are are taking thigns for granted and a
re not saying everything that needs to be said to make the truth of the arugemen
t clear.
What is a premise?
Demonstrative premise> That is what we hold all to be true.
dialectical premise> THat is what is supposed for the sake of the arguement

Is there a more or lesser basic kind of formal cause?