Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Aristotle Summary
- Aristotle's 4 Causes
- Material Cause- the matter or substance from which something is made
- The Formal Cause- what gives the matter its form or structure
- The Efficient Cause- the cause of an object/ thing existing
- The Final Cause- the reason why something's the way it is
- Plato and Aristotle
- Different
- Aristotle: emphasises value of studying physical world
- Effectively rejects Plato's theory of Forms
- Rejects dualism and adapts Plato's understanding of the soul
- The Prime Mover
- The source that causes the motion and change of
the universe without being moved and that is
eternal
- Exists of necessity
- Is the Final Cause
- Linked with God; in 'Metaphysics' Aristotle calls this being 'God'
- Is related to the universe
- As a leader
- In the ordering of the Universe
- Problems
- Relationship between it and universe is unclear
- Aristotle's PM is transcendent and cannot interact in the
universe in the way that religious believers often talk
about God's activity in the world
- The casual relationship between the PM thinking and the universe is unclear
- Is there a final cause or purpose to the universe?