Aristotle
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- Created on: 22-02-16 09:44
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- Aristotle
- Prime Mover
- "An immortal unchanging being"
- There must be a start of movement, a first cause in this impermanent world.
- Indestructible
- Eternal
- Unmovable
- Ultimate cause of the universe
- Unmoved Mover=Prime Mover=God
- Eternal Substance
- Exists necessarily
- Immune to change, Decay and Death
- There must be common source that was responsible for the beginning of everything
- If there wasn't an ultimate cause, there would be no chain of causes, therefore, nothing would come into existence.
- Potentiality to actuality.
- Everything has the ability to change
- The only thing without potentiality is God.
- He is pure actuality because he is simple, eternal and perfect.
- Like a magnet, draws other things towards it.
- Teleological cause of the universe
- Necessary being
- Four Causes
- Material Cause
- Refers to the matter of substance that something is made from.
- Bees-Skin, Blood, Fur, Organs.
- Refers to the matter of substance that something is made from.
- Formal Cause
- Refers to what gives the matter its 'form' or 'structure'.
- Bees-Black and Yellow, Buzz.
- Refers to what gives the matter its 'form' or 'structure'.
- Efficient Cause
- Refers to the cause of an object or thing existing, why things exist.
- Bees-God, Evolution, Reproduction.
- Refers to the cause of an object or thing existing, why things exist.
- Final Cause
- Reason why something is the way it is
- Bees-To make honey, Pollinate.
- Reason why something is the way it is
- Material Cause
- Student of Plato
- Relied on his senses(Empiricist)
- Focused on natural world, not spiritual
- Focused on categorising thigns
- Two questions-'Where/how do things come to be?' and 'Why do things come to be?'
- 382-22BCE
- Eudaimonia
- Greek word- Commonly translated to happiness(human flourishing)
- Supreme goal of human life
- "We become builders by building"
- In order to reach eudemonia, we must be virtuous people
- Relates to the final cause.
- Prime Mover
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