Aristotle

Prime Mover is Aristotle's God

• Not physical! Doesn't create movement but things are drawn towards the prime mover through love and desire
• God exists necessarily!
• Eternal- causes everything else to move, doesn't move itself, an essence, not created!
• Never changes and lacks evil
• Final Cause- love of fulfilling purpose- desire to do something
• The Final and First Cause behind all things!

Transient-

• world always changing (in a constant flux)
• everything effects somethign else
• e.g. domino effect

Strengths and Weaknesses

• Strengths- reason, senses- empircical knowledge, starting point, cause/purpose
• Weaknesses- prime mover is powerful yet unable to know it ? Eternal thought

Matter and Goal

Cause and Purpose- visible world

MEFF

• The material cause e.g. marble for statue
• The efficient cause e.g. sculpture
• The formal causee.g. resemblance to celebrity
• The final cause

Potentiality and Actuality- motion- actualising of the potentialitye.g. a match burning, match=potentiality, match burning=motion, burnt out match=actuality

Aristotle disagrees with Plato's idea of the forms - Aristotle believes the forms are found in itemsnot in a separate realm

Pure Forms

• Give the object it's essence - forms are understood through the senses
• has a relative goal- to meet it's final cause
• Relative goal -Reach a state of complete rest
• Reached- become pure- Only God has form without matter
• The closest thing to the state of rest is heaven
• Objects on earth are removed from ultimate goal

True Knowledge

• Reality of world- empirical world, natural world= real world
• Knowledge is perception
• 5 senses, hearing, seeing, taste, touch, smell