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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?
The camera opens in Athens.
Why this scene is pinned here
The source supports the event-place association, not the truth of the philosophy or a line of influence.
Aristotle
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §1 Life, the Lyceum in Athens
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