Aristotle and the prime/mover causes
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- Created on: 23-02-15 18:14
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Aristotle and the prime mover/four causes
Key things about Aristotle and what he believed:
- He was impiricist ----> Truth is arrived at through the senses
- Had different notions from Plato
- Materialist
- In 367 BC Aristotle was 17 and Plato was 60
- He studied for 20 years
- The answers are in the physical world
- Prime mover = Final Cause
PRIME MOVER
- Aristotle realised that the world changes
- Nothing comes from nothing = Creatio ex Nihilo
- Chain of events to an ultimate cause
- Something that is eternal is good, things that change bad as there's always room for improvement
- The prime mover can't move
- His version of God is perfect and so can't think of anything but itself
- Could be Aristotle's idea of God - Can't pray or have a relationship with it but can apprechiate it
- Forms are object of rational thought - but not proof that they exist beyond this world
- Forms can only exist as part of things in this world
TRUE KNOWLEDGE
- There are no separate relms, unlike what Plato thought
- Only place that we have true knowledge is our world that we live in
- Telos is achieving our end purpose which is discovering true knowledge
PRIME MATTER = Anything that lacks a well defined form - not organised in any particular structure matter - no form
ARISTOTLE'S IDEA OF GOD = Only thing that has a form without matter
CAUSE AND PURPOSE IN THE WORLD
- Objects change in a number of ways and these changes are cause - Nature doesn't act without a purpose
- If there's change then something must initiate it
- Final cause behind everything is the unmoved mover (thought or intelligence)
4 CAUSES
- MATERIAL CAUSE…
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