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Explain Aristotle idea of the four causes.
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Laura Barrett Explain Aristotle idea of the four causes. Some of the questions that Aristotle wanted to answer were to do with the nature of things, their substance. A question that he wanted to answer was "What gives a particular object their characteristics?" For Aristotle the 'Form' of something was not some kind of abstract Ideal, as Plato had believed but was found within the item itself. Its form was its structure, and its characteristics; the 'form' of an object can be eagerly perceived with the senses. The explanations of things could be seen in four different ways, at four different levels: the four causes. The first cause is the material cause. This answers the question what it is made of? The material cause is that of which an entity, object or system is made. Material causes effect the wholes of which they constitute through transference of their inherent qualitative properties. For example...
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