Aristotle
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- Created on: 12-05-14 17:26
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- Aristotle
- introduction
- Disagreed with Plato, he didn't believe there was two separate realms. he believed we can only gain true knowledge in this world.
- he rejected Plato's idea that everything in the world is a copy of an ideal form.
- everything in the world is made of matter (that which is physical as opposed to spiritual.
- four causes
- Material cause (what is it made of?)
- Formal cause (what are its characteristics?)
- Efficient cause (how does it happen? why does it exist?)
- final cause (what's its purpose)
- Prime mover
- all movement depends on their being a mover. Nothing can come from nothing and there must have been something to start off the chain reaction. this mover is GOD.
- prime mover is unchanging and the cause of all that exists. he believed that the prime mover caused a change in motion in the universe.
- introduction
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