Aristotles Prime Mover
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- Created on: 04-02-17 16:08
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- Aristotle's Prime Mover
- What causes the different objects in the world to actualise their potential?
- He said that the cause of the universe was the Prime Mover (unmoved mover)
- Christians inherited the idea that God is changeless
- God is restricted of time and space so the past and future are the same for God
- The Prime Mover does not depend on anything else for its existence
- God has no potential, meaning he has no capacity for change
- He must exist independantly
- If God relied on the sun and it fizzled out, he would cease to exist
- He must be ETERNAL
- Because of this lack of potential
- If God cannot change then he cease to be
- If he exists then he must always have existed
- God must be IMMATERIAL
- All matter is capable of being acted upon, so God can not be made of matter
- Therefore, God can not create any kind of activity, and cant actually do anything.
- God must be purely spiritual and pure thought
- And not thinking about anything that could cause him to change
- God must think of only himself and his own perfect nature
- God must be purely spiritual and pure thought
- The Prime Mover relates to Aristotles ideas about CAUSATION
- PM is the final cause of everything that exists in the Universe
- He is the ORIGIN AND PURPOSE of everything
- He is NOT the efficient cause because he cant do anything
- He is the FINAL CAUSE
- In terms of him being desired and loved
- Drawing everything to itself without being affected
- He is the ultimate reason and Telos for everything else
- The final cause of movement is a desire for God, everything in the universe is drawn towards Gods perfection and wants to imitate it
- So by this great attraction the PM causes movement in everything else
- PM causes change and motion by attracting everything towards itself
- So by this great attraction the PM causes movement in everything else
- In terms of him being desired and loved
- PM is the final cause of everything that exists in the Universe
- God must be perfectly Good
- Baddness is related to some kind of lacking
- an absence of something that ought to be there
- If God is pure actuality, then he must contain everything that ought to be there
- So he MUST be perfect
- If God is pure actuality, then he must contain everything that ought to be there
- an absence of something that ought to be there
- Baddness is related to some kind of lacking
- The final cause of movement is a desire for God, everything in the universe is drawn towards Gods perfection and wants to imitate it
- So by this great attraction the PM causes movement in everything else
- PM causes change and motion by attracting everything towards itself
- So by this great attraction the PM causes movement in everything else
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