ARISTOTLE
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- Created on: 19-10-17 13:39
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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.
- PRIME MOVER
- Problematic with humanity
- Material
- A posteriori
- Empiricism
- VS. Plato who was a rationalist, a priori - forms.
- Empiricism
- 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.
- Four Causes
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