Ideals About Cause and Purpose
- Created by: Hannah Shepheard
- Created on: 24-02-15 19:53
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- Aristotle: Ideals about Cause and Purpose
- The Four Causes
- 2. Efficient Cause
- What caused it? The agent that caused the thing to exist
- 4. Final Cause
- The ultimate reason why it exists. It's purpose.
- 1. Material Cause
- The matter or substance that something is made from
- 3. Formal Cause
- The plan behind it. What makes it recognisable? Structure, form, shape etc.
- 2. Efficient Cause
- The Prime Mover
- The Prime Mover is the originating cause for all motion eternally
- The Prime Mover sustains all change from Potentiality to Actuality
- The Prime Mover exists by necessity, it cannot fail to exist
- The Prime Mover is unchanging, it is pure actuality by nature so it's nature is good
- The Prime Mover is the Final Cause- The ultimate reason why we exist
- The Prime Mover is the ultimate reason and final goal of movement
- The Four Causes
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