Aristotle
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- Created on: 15-02-14 15:15
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- Aristotle
- 4 causes
- Efficient Cause = the cause of an object or thing existing
- Formal Cause = what gives the matter its 'form' or 'structure'
- Final Cause = why something is the way it is
- Material Cause = the matter or substance that something is made from
- Prime mover
- the final cause of everything
- pure actuality with no potential to change
- immutable
- not lacking in quality
- purely good
- existence is necessary - cannot fail to exist
- everything is in a state of motion. change is always cause by something else. everything is in a state of potentiality and actuality
- what was meant by potentiality and actuality was that a cup of hot coffee is actually hot but potentially cold and whilst a child is actually a child, they are potentially an adult
- God
- for Aristotle, the prime mover is God, God is pure actuality
- the prime mover is the leader and order within the universe
- the prime mover is impersonal and does not act in the world but is instead transcendent and eternal - big different with God of classical theism
- Plato
- Aristotle rejects a dualist view of the world and Plato's understanding of the soul
- Aristotle rejected the forms and on reason was the relationship between the forms and objects in the physical world were never really made
- although Aristotle appreciated the teachings from Plato, he rejected the Forms as Aristotle focused on the physical world and empirical evidence
- Issues
- cannot be completely like God because God is said to act in the world and people experience him
- there doesn't have to be a final cause. the universe could just be there with no real cause or purpose
- the relationship between the prime mover and the universe is unclear, whilst the prime mover is seen as transcendent
- 4 causes
- everything is in a state of motion. change is always cause by something else. everything is in a state of potentiality and actuality
- what was meant by potentiality and actuality was that a cup of hot coffee is actually hot but potentially cold and whilst a child is actually a child, they are potentially an adult
- although Aristotle appreciated the teachings from Plato, he rejected the Forms as Aristotle focused on the physical world and empirical evidence
- Issues
- cannot be completely like God because God is said to act in the world and people experience him
- there doesn't have to be a final cause. the universe could just be there with no real cause or purpose
- the relationship between the prime mover and the universe is unclear, whilst the prime mover is seen as transcendent
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