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by Mr Ridgway 14 years ago

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AS Aristotle

Aristotle's concept of the Prime Mover posits a necessary, eternal entity existing outside the universe and time, which influences everything without direct intervention. This Prime Mover, unchanging and spiritual, serves as the ultimate cause of all things, drawing everything towards itself through a gravitational-like effect.

AS Aristotle

Aristotle

Prime Mover

Is THE Final Cause of everything
Characteristics
Knows nothing of the world

Unable to intervene

No relationship with anything else
Only knows of himself
Thinks only of himself
Has a gravitational effect

We are drawn towards him

Good
Eternal
Similar to the modern idea of God
Influenced Aquinas' Cosmological Argument
Has Necessary existence
Spiritual not physical
Unchanging
Outside time
Outside the Universe

Potentiality and Actuality

Something is causing this 'movement'
Something must give everything its purpose to realise its potential
Everything has the potential to become something else
Everthing is in a state of change, or movement

Four Causes

Final
The purpose of something
Formal
The form of something
Efficient
The cause of somthing
Material
The substance of something

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