Aristotle

• Aristotle was a pupil of Plato! 
• He was a greek philosopher 
• He wrote a book called the 'Metaphysics'.
• He was a Dualist meaning... the body and soul live WITHOUT each other.
• Aristotle didnt agree with Plato that there was another world more real than this one (earth)

• Aristotle tried to show that we needed to look at why things exist!
• He started looking at the structure of how things are created
• He didnt say nature was designed, but he said that there must be a reason for why i is the way it is!
• He believed there were 4 CAUSES for why a object exists they are......... 

- MATERIAL CAUSE! - Material used to make the object

- EFFICENT CAUSE! - Who or what made it

- FORMAL CAUSE! - The form and structure of it! 

-FINAL CAUSE! - Its purpose 

Example - a statue!  - Material cause - Made of marble

                                    - Efficient cause - Made by a sculpture

                                    - Formal cause - Its a statue

                                    - Final cause - to be beautiful

• Aristotle said that everything that exists is in motion. 
• The physical world is always changing and change and motion is always caused by something! He also said that the world is in a state of potenitiality and actuality!

Aristotle that something causes this change in the world and he called it th PRIME  MOVER!!!!

The Prime mover ...

• Causes change!
• exists by necessity
• Is the final cause! 
• is linked with God!
• It doesnt change itself

IS IT GOD?