• In Aristotle’s view, the Prime Mover is perfect ‘pure actuality’ and this incapable of change. This has implications for his ideas about God’s nature and means that:
1. God causes movement and change. Everything in universe is drawn towards God’s perfection and wants to imitate it, so by attraction, the Prime Mover causes movement in everything else. He does nothing; but it is the object of everything.
2. God is not dependent on anything else for existence
3. God is immaterial – this is because matter is capable of being acted upon and changed. Instead God is purely spiritual.
4. God thinks only about himself and his own perfect nature – to think about anything else, e.g. our universe, would cause him to change.
5. God is eternal and beyond space and time – future and the past are the same for God.
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