Aristotle four causes
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- Created on: 04-02-17 15:32
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- Aristotle
- He found it difficult to agree with Plato's views
- He did not accept that there was another world more real than this one
- He believed that the physical world around us is the key to knowledge
- We can learn about it using our senses
- Aristotle rejected that there is a 'world of forms'
- He thought that nothing can be gained from the dualist approach
- Aristotle thought that ideas can have no real existence just on their own, they have to relate to something
- Knowledge can be gained through observation of the world around us
- Why are things the way they are-what caused them?
- Why do things exist at all?
- Aristotle realised that there are different explanations for its existence
- The Four Causes
- MATERIAL CAUSE
- What is it made from
- FORMAL CAUSE
- What are its characteristics?
- EFFICIENT CAUSE
- Who created it?
- FINAL CAUSE
- What is its purpose?
- MATERIAL CAUSE
- The Four Causes
- The Four Causes
- MATERIAL CAUSE
- What is it made from
- FORMAL CAUSE
- What are its characteristics?
- EFFICIENT CAUSE
- Who created it?
- FINAL CAUSE
- What is its purpose?
- MATERIAL CAUSE
- He found it difficult to agree with Plato's views
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