ARISTOTLE

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  • ARISTOTLE
    • Four Causes
      • Material
        • Where does the matter of the universe come from?
      • Formal
      • Efficient
      • Final
        • Problematic with humanity
          • What is our final cause?
          • Endless Regress?
            • PRIME MOVER
              • Transcendent
              • Pure intelligence
              • Impersonal
              • Simple
              • Uncaused
              • Movement drawn by attraction
              • Doesn't link with his empiricism.
              • God of Gaps - used to fill in gaps in knowledge
                • Dawkins would criticise.
    • A posteriori
      • Empiricism
        • VS. Plato who was a rationalist, a priori - forms.
    • Potentiality VS Actuality
    • All things have telos - all moving towards an end goal.
    • WEAKNESS
      • God of Gaps
      • Russell: Universe is a "brute fact", "the universe is there and that is all."
      • Quantum theory/thermo dynamics - things sometimes appear to come from nothing.
      • Plato - pre-existing matter - Demiurge.
    • STRENGTHS
      • Big Bang was a starting point.
      • Cicero - introduction.
      • Kant claimed we need both empiricism to make observations and the rationalism to reason them out.
      • Aquinas - birth of the Cosmological argument.

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