Explain hylomorphism
How did Aristotle's hylomorphism differ from Plato's theory of forms?
- Hylomorphism: Aristotle's philosophical theory that views "being" as a compound of form and matterâ€"from the Greek words hyle (matter) and morphe (form or shape).
- One way of understanding this is in terms of structure and structured: form is a structure and matter is anything that admits of structuring and there can be no structure without something that is structured.
- In opposition to Plato, Aristotle insisted that living things were composed of the same materials as nonliving ones, and that what distinguished the former from the latter was the way those materials were structured or organized.
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