Aristotle's Theory of Causation

Join George and John as they discuss and debate different Philosophical ideas. Today they will be discussing Aristotle’s Theory of Causation.
Upon studying the Empirical world Aristotle noticed the constant movement and state of change that everything goes through, moving from potentiality and actuality. From this Aristotle developed the 4 Causes, the theory of how our world moves and changes. Together with the Prime Mover this theory attempts to explain all the change, flux and development of everything in our universe.
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This is an impoverished caricature of Aristotle’s Prime Mover. Further Aquinas built on his demonstration and perfected the proof of the God of classical theism. If one is looking to legitimately learn the Prime Mover argument I would recommend reading Feser & Trent Horn for a simple to grasp reasoning.

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Your recommendations are worthy, especially Feser's book Aristotle's revenge. But considering the source of knowledge, that is KZbin, and a short span of time, I would argue that the target audience wouldn't be much interested in an in-depth analysis and critique, that which encompasses the wide developments of the argument. Such videos would be helpful to obtain the ability to conceptualise the terminologies of Aristotelian philosophy and partly metaphysics.

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Aquinas distorted and Christianized Aristotle's argument and doctrines. Actually, that's what early Christians did. They stole from Greeks and built their Christian ad hoc. If you want to legitimately learn Aristotle's view, stay away from Christian sources.

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I think there is room for considering the existence of a prime mover. I will first state by saying that prime doesn’t necessarily mean supreme, nor does it mean that one can’t be many all at once.

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Could the prime mover not be seen as entropy which drives all things in the universe forward towards one particular end (the heat death of the universe) and yet is not capable of knowing about us or interacting with us? Obviously, this is not something Aristotle could have thought of but it seems like an apt comparison.

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Yes, the prime mover is also called as the unmoved mover (this is the wording used in my copy of Aristotle's book Metaphysics) and I did some research concluding that entropy really is just a modern manifestation of the unmoved mover. Aristotle believed the unmoved/prime mover (god, possibly one who does not know or have an ability to intervene anything except themself) was the origin of all things because things can not exist if they do not move. Analogously, a human body is bound to die unless the human gets at least a little bit of physical activity, or birds will die if they do not perform the physical activity of flying enough. Sidenote Aristotle is the father of biology and 2/3rds of all his books are in fact biology books!

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Cheese Cake: Material ingredients, Formal recipe / mold, Efficient chef, Final product. The Prime Mover founded and manages the restaurant.

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5:00 with this saying Aristotle contradicted his own worldview.

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9:25 ironically Darwinian evolution would just be proof of teleology. Philosophers advocating for teleology bring this up again and again. How he doesn’t know this is astonishing.

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1.The theory of evolution is just a theory..it is based on inference..you cannot put a philosophy to test by a theory..if it is not certain that animals did perform evolution how can one say that since..animals who survive the world are living and thus nothing really has any telos when it is not proven at the first hand that animal evolve or not..and also we are not seeing any kind of evolution right now..do we...we see many birds die of various continuous method but no one is ever seen a bird which has evolved at the present time of the factor which has be hampering its cause of death... 2. The 2nd point I agree with that guy..God cannot be powerful and ignorant at the same time.. Also according to Aristotle as there was never a point of time when a Supreme power would have started this universe..it doesn't have to go with that logic..even ideas are something that are beyond space and time..And GOD is the cause of causes therefore He is also the cause for ideas..so if GOD can be the cause of ideas at the same time ideas can be beyond space and time..then why GOD create this universe at the same time it doesn't have to be a particular point of time..like Sun and its rays...we know that sun is the cause of sun rays..but no one can argue that..it was a particular point of time when sun manifested the sun rays..similarly it can be the relation with GOD and Universe that is the existence of Universe and the existence of the GOD can be something inseparable.

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I am not sure to be on board here. Beyond the "prime mover" we have the idea of the "unmoved mover". A consquence without cause. And it makes no sense. Nowadays, most modern physicists, not all of them I admit, but most, agree on the concept of the Block Universe: a universe which is eternal, and where past, present and future equally exist. In other terms, no origin, no unmoved mover/prime mover.

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Prime mover is not the origin that initiated the causal chain, it merely is an explanation as to why things are in a causal chain.

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Your interjection of Darwin shows you are out of date. Darwin has been disproven in terms of primary evolution that is the explanation for human development - ape to human. Yet his theory may have some validity in terms of non-essential changes seen in nature.

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Why should I give a crap about what some superstitious bonehead from 2000 years ago thought about causality? Physics and philosophy have made a few advances since Aristotle's time.

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Homie, its great to see you take your channel in a new direction. It might have been an easy and natural progression for you to consider how to improve, but for me and many others, I suspect that these (4) causes can guide an integrated, virtuous and meaningful growth without being overwhelmed by creeping doubts that our pursuit of purpose might be too performative, misdirected or subject to being hijacked. Here are some specific ways that this concept is very meaningful to me, an engineer and educator, who likely has a few shared interests with you: 1. The (4) causes integrate materialism, scientific causality, bulk properties, and our sense of purpose. 2. The (4) causes can scaffold a sequence of experiences and considerations, to assist with concept development and refuting misconceptions when teaching. 3. The (4) causes can frame the construction of a fishbone diagram, to ensure that a root cause analysis (RCA) is on the lookout for invisible causes which might commonly go unconsidered. 4. The (4) causes can frame the consideration of a 'Failure Modes and Effects Analysis' (FMEA), again helping to address common blindspots. 5. The (4) causes clarify how antifragile mechanisms result in emergent properties that can scale up, introducing new and exciting things to our universe. 6. The (4) causes can frame an inquiry into game theory, from which it can be proven that a virtuous 'will to meaning' is strictly dominant over a will to pleasure or will to power. 7. The (4) causes can collectively act as a philosophical razor for identifying and rejecting dubious claims of teleology without causality. 8. The (4) causes help identify the enormous amount of processes and structures that we rely on to experience life. 9. The (4) causes reveal how nature provides a blank canvas for us (and any other highly intelligent creatures throughout the universe) to improvise, hypothesize, and improve our sense of meaning and purpose. 10. The (4) causes remind us that we are more than the sum of our parts, we are subject to little variations which go beyond what can be accurately modeled by science, and so the imaginary boundary lines which divide each of us and allows for highly accurate predictions, can never be 100% right, because at a fundamental level the imaginary boundary line doesn't account for the sense of unity and belonging that we are all a part of the entire universe. If ever you have to endure unnecessary suffering or a cruel fate, you may find solace in knowing that you are part of something greater.