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- Aristotle
- God
- The Prime Mover is impersonal and does not act within the world but is transcendant- very different to God of classical theism.
- The Prime Mover is the leader of order in the universe.
- 4 Causes
- Material
- The substance of something
- Efficient
- The Cause of Something
- Final
- The purpose of something
- Formal
- The Form of Something
- Material
- Prime Mover
- Prime Mover is the final cause of everything
- Pure actuality with not potential to change, he is immutable and purely good.
- The Prime mover, which causes all motion and change, must be eternal and unmoved
- Moves everything through attraction (gravitational effect)
- The Prime Movers existence is necessary, he cannot fail to exist.
- Beginning of the constant chain of effects, does not rely on anything else
- Aristotle referred to him as God.
- Only knows of himself, no relationship with anything else.
- Knows nothing of the world, unable to intervene.
- Actuality/ Potentiality
- Everything is in a state of change or movement.
- Everything has the potential to become something else
- Something must fulfill its purpose to achieve its potential
- Final
- The purpose of something
- Final
- Something is causing this movement.
- Prime Mover
- Prime Mover is the final cause of everything
- Pure actuality with not potential to change, he is immutable and purely good.
- The Prime mover, which causes all motion and change, must be eternal and unmoved
- Moves everything through attraction (gravitational effect)
- The Prime Movers existence is necessary, he cannot fail to exist.
- Beginning of the constant chain of effects, does not rely on anything else
- Aristotle referred to him as God.
- Only knows of himself, no relationship with anything else.
- Knows nothing of the world, unable to intervene.
- Prime Mover
- Criticisms
- There osen't have to be a final cause, the universe could just be there with no real cause or purpose
- Judeao-Christian God is believed to act in the world, people experience him.
- The relationship between the Prime Mover and the universe is unclear.
- evidence based theory (new knowledge could change the truth of the theory).
- Infinite Regression
- Differences to Plato
- Aristotle rejects a dualist view of the world and Plato's belief of the soul.
- Rejected the forms, preferring to focus on empirical evidence and the physical world (Materialist).
- Plato emphasises the physical world as the source of knowledge whilst Aristotle emphasises the physical worlds and experience as the basis of knowledge
- Aristotle discards Plato’s theory of the forms due to lack of explanation about the relationship between forms and objects
- God
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