Using a simple example, explain how Aristotle responds to Plato's Theory of Forms, focusing on how Aristotle approaches the issue of change and the...

Aristotle
criticized Plato's notion of the existence of forms as things-in-themselves with independent
reality. Instead, he believed that the phenomena were real, as opposed to shadows of
noumena. He saw the forms as embodied, or en hule
eide. Rather than being prior to the sensibilia, the forms were
merely concepts derived from them.

This notion of the relationship between
forms and matter is fully conceptualized in the theory of the four causes, which could be
understood by applying them to a table:

• Material cause: the stuff
  of which things are made or its physical properties (e.g., the material cause of a table is
  wood).
• Efficient cause: the agent that caused the thing to be made, or in
  the case of the table, the carpenter.
• Formal cause: the shape or design of
  the table. This is what distinguishes a table from a chair or a bench.


• Final cause: the purpose of the table, such as its use as a surface by
  people.