What are Aristotle’s Four causes?
Anything that exists has four causes acting on it
The material cause-What the object is made of
The formal cause-The key characteristics
The efficient cause-What makes the thing that is caused
The final cause-Why it has been made,its purpose
What is Aristotles prime mover?
the Prime Mover as the originating cause of all motion that sustains the pattern of change from actuality to potentiality.
The Prime mover only thinks about itself and is only aware of itself.(impersonal)=What makes it different to God
The final cause
What is a contradiction in Aristotles empiricism and belief in the prime mover
Francis bacon shows there is a contradiction in his belief of a prime mover and telos with his belief in empiricism.
What are the positives of Aristotles empiricism?
-gave the epistemological approach fundamental to science
- relevant to the material world we live in
-compatible with modern thinkers such as Hume
What are Aristotle’s views on Plato’s mind-body dualism
Aristotle disagrees with mind-body dualism as he argues we require both our senses and reason.
It is our senses that inform our reason.
