Aristotle
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- Aristotle
- The Four Causes
- There are four causes involved in the creative process
- Efficient - what brings it about
- Formal - Shape
- Final - goal or purpose
- Material - what it is made of
- There are four causes involved in the creative process
- The Prime Mover
- Since everything is in a constant state of change, there must be a unmovable cause
- Pure form (reached full potential)
- Everything is attracted to PM's perfection and wants to imitate it
- Causes all movement through attraction
- Everything is attracted to PM's perfection and wants to imitate it
- Causes all movement through attraction
- Not the 'first push on a domino chain' but the Final Cause
- Prime Mover vs God as Crafts man
- Prime Mover
- No way involved in creation
- Only concerned with perfect beings (a.k.a. himself)
- Does not move/create things physically
- Drawn towards perfection
- No way involved in creation
- God
- Actively involved in creation
- Cares
- Is seen as sustainer as well as creator
- Prime Mover
- The Four Causes
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