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ACT 1 OF 4

World and the stage of life

Ask what exists and which activities and relationships make a life go well.

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Around 335 BCEAthensActivity

THE QUESTION IN THIS SCENE

What is real, and what remains through change?

Work associated with the Lyceum period systematizes a vocabulary of substance and change.

Aristotle — Matter and form, potentiality and actuality

Can the move from potentiality to actuality explain how something changes while remaining itself?

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  • Aristotle

    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Locator: §1 Life, the Lyceum in Athens

    Open source
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All fourteen scenes

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  1. 01 · 335 BCE · Athens

    What is real, and what remains through change?

  2. 02 · 306 BCE · Athens

    What makes a life go well?

  3. 03 · 1641 CE · Paris

    What can we claim to know?

  4. 04 · 1641 CE · Paris

    What makes a mind and a self persist?

  5. 05 · 1677 CE · Amsterdam

    Can we be responsible if we could not have done otherwise?

  6. 06 · 1748 CE · London

    How far can the past support the future?

  7. 07 · 1843 CE · Copenhagen

    How far can reason speak about faith?

  8. 08 · 1892 CE · Jena

    How do words point to the world?

  9. 09 · 1934 CE · New York

    Why does art matter, and what makes a work valuable?

  10. 10 · 1942 CE · Paris

    How should we face suffering and death?

  11. 11 · 1949 CE · Paris

    Whose knowledge is allowed to count?

  12. 12 · 1962 CE · Chicago

    What makes an inquiry scientific?

  13. 13 · 1971 CE · Cambridge, MA

    What makes power legitimate and rules fair?

  14. 14 · 1984 CE · Oxford

    What do we owe future people and the more-than-human world?