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a. Describe Aristotle’s teaching about the difference between the Final Cause and other sorts of causes.
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a. Describe Aristotle's teaching about the difference between the Final Cause and other sorts of causes. Aristotle focused his questioning on the reason behind why something exists and what purpose it holds. Opposed to Plato, Aristotle's theories of why something holds the characteristics that it does is all apparent to the physical world. His thought of 'form' was not an 'ideal' in another universe, but was within the item, in its structure and characteristics. Aristotle thought that the form of an object is perceivable by the senses we hold instead of being a thought only process. He used the word 'substance' to express material in which objects are made from, for example the substance of a chair is the wood, nails and adjustments. These substances create the form of an object; Aristotle also questioned what causes these objects to have the characteristics that it portrays? If a chair had only...
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