Famously Aristotle claims that being ("reality") is primarily said of substance and claims that substance is the basic, foundational, unity of reality. In this episode of Take Every Thought Captive, Dr. Smith and Mr. Grossheim (Ph.D. student in Philosophy) explain how substance is discovered through a methodical analysis of change, which culminates in the insight that real composites are always composed of form and matter, that is, that substance cannot be reduced to a more basic kind of reality. Listen, enjoy, share, and subscribe!

Topics include:
Substance and accidents
Matter, form, and privation
Reductionism and ancient atomism
Plato and the separate forms
Form-matter composition
Design in nature

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