Criticisms of Aristotle
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- Created on: 02-01-16 15:06
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- Criticisms of Aristotle
- Lack of Evidence
- For Four Causes + Prime Mover
- No purpose for universe
- E.g Russell, "brute fact"
- Satre, Dawkins
- Incompatible w/ theism
- Theist belief - Aristotelian God = irrelevant to universe
- No interaction/effect
- God of own experiences - different to this
- No interaction/effect
- Theist belief - Aristotelian God = irrelevant to universe
- How can an eternal, transcendent mover act upon things in the world?
- Outside of time/space
- Not present around us
- Difficulty of evaluating work
- Hard to understand/interpret
- Often contradictory
- Vast amounts of material
- Lack of Evidence
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