Aristotle and His Ideas of Matter

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Aristotle and his ideas of matter. Human beings live in a universe composed of different types of matter. Through science and throughout the years, scientists have been able to identify the substances that compose each subject. Aristotle was a Greek philosopher interested to know what were the components of the objects and the nature of the same. At the same time he did not believe that the shape of an object was some abstract ideal, but the shape of an object is contained in the same object. Aristotle, through his theory, theory of form and matter, explains that all objects are composed of a certain materials arranged in a certain way. The material they are composed of is their matter. The way it is arranged is their form. That is why Aristotle divides the object into two parts: form and matter. Aristotle created four cases in which the steps considered to understand the composition of materials: 1. Material cause: what is something made of? 2. Efficient cause: what brings something about? 3. Formal cause: what characteristics does an object have? 4. Final cause: what is the reason for something’s existence? Through this lesson I could understand more the above questions. There must be a chemical bond to the creation of an object. Chemistry allows us to know various types of bonds such as ionic bond and the covalent bond. The work of the chemical bond is entirely realized by electrons. The ionic bond works in a way that the atoms first transfer electrons between each other, change into ions that then are bound together by the attraction between the oppositely-charged ions; in the other hand, in the covalent bond the atoms are bound by shared electrons. Thanks to the discovery of these chemical bounds, Human beings are able to recognize and know every component of the things that are around us. For example, trees, food, clothes,

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