Aristotle
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- Aristotle
- The 4 Causes: Why things exist as they do
- The Material cause- What's it made of
- The Formal cause- What are it's charcteristics
- The Efficient cause- How does it happen
- The Final cause: What's it's purpose
- Everything is in a state of change, from a state of actuality to potentialty
- Empiricist- Knowledge is gained through observation of world
- Materialist: Believes only the body &this current life
- The Prime Mover:
- Something that causes motion&change of universe without being moved
- PM exists by necessity
- PM is Final Cause of everything in the world
- Not Judeo-Christian concept of God
- Does not interact with us-Impersonal
- PM is form of intelligence, only role is to think about its self- Immaterial
- Potentiality &Actuality
- When something undergoes a change from one state to another
- Everything that exists is in a permanent state of "change"
- Change & Motion always caused by something
- There exists something that causes the change without being moved a- Eternal- PM
- Russell: The universe simply exists, does not have any over-riding purpose
- Dawkins: Evolution by natural selection has no prupose
- "There is a substance which is eternal and unmovable and separate from sensible things… this substance is without parts and indivisible… impassive and unalterable."
- The 4 Causes: Why things exist as they do
- Potentiality &Actuality
- When something undergoes a change from one state to another
- Everything that exists is in a permanent state of "change"
- Change & Motion always caused by something
- There exists something that causes the change without being moved a- Eternal- PM
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