The efficient cause is why it is here (so for a chair, someone must have made it.) The final cause is its reason for being, the purpose it has. Aristotle identified this as the “soul,” however Aristotle did not believe that the soul was separate from the body. Aristotle believed there was a “prime mover” something that causes the changes in the universe. It was the reason everything was here (the reason for being.)
What is an “aria”? Why do you think Rodriguez chose it for his title? Is it appropriate? Effective? How do the first four paragraphs appeal to ethos?
1991) This essay will discuss and evaluate four different approaches, namely the behaviourist, cognitive, psychodynamic and humanist perspectives in psychology. Behaviourism is a perspective that studies only observable behaviour. Behaviourists believed that changes in a subject’s behaviour were as a result of conditioning, a learning process in which a new response becomes associated with a certain stimulus. They do not believe that it is necessary to study the ‘internal mental thought processes’. These events are not observable, behaviours are.
Aristotle wanted to explain the purpose of things existing as they do, and rejected the idea of Plato's 'perfect form' of objects. He came up with the idea that a certain object had four different explanations as to why it existed, hence calling it the 'Four Causes'. The Four Causes he came up with were; The Material Cause, The Formal Cause, The Efficient Cause and The Final Cause. The Material Cause refers to what the object in question is made out of, for example, a book is made of paper, therefore the material cause of the book is paper. The Formal Cause refers to what gives the book its form or structure, many pieces of paper put together in a particular way give the book it's formal cause.
'Telos' is Greek for purpose or end. The teleological arguments are based off the fact that we observe that objects in the world, even if they lack conscious and intelligence, act or behave in purposeful ways (they act towards and end), for example the purpose of a heart is to pump blood around the body and the purpose of a toaster is to toast things. Aquinas had his own form of the teleological argument shown in the fifth of his five ways, also known as the argument from design. He identified that that the way in which 'Natural Bodies' act in a regular fashion to accomplish their end, directed to a goal, following natural laws provides the evidence for the existence of an externally and higher intelligent being, or to Aquinas, God. Aquinas' argument is an a posteriori argument as it is based on human observation or experience.
What motivates him toward this attempt? Does he strike you as a self-promoter or a genuinely benevolent man desirous of helping others? In your answer, use specific examples from the book to illustrate your points. Ben Franklin, one of the founding fathers of America, was a man who lived his life to its full potential. As he grew older and wiser, Ben Franklin became a role model for government officials, early colonists, and future citizens of the United States of America.
Socrates’ first argument is based on the idea of dialectics and the cycle of life and death. According to Socrates, all the things come to exist from their counterparts. “for all things which come to be, let us see whether they come to be in this way, that is, from their opposites if they have such, as the beautiful is the opposite of the ugly and the just of the unjust” (70e). For an object to become tall, it must previously be shorter. Similarly, people who are awake are just people who were previously sleeping.
Kline’s article focuses mostly on proofing that “technology” does not have as vague of a meaning as we make it out to be and he does so by giving us four common usages of it. Each of these usages define “technology” as something created by the human species. Kline also uses examples to give his readers examples for each of usages to give a better connection between his theory and everyday life. Through the study of human patterns, he tries to take us on a journey of how “technology” is crucial to our survival as human species. One of those usages is “Hardware (or Artifacts), which Kline describes as “non-natural objects, of all kinds, manufactured by humans.” What he is trying to say is that these objects can be anything that is made by a human and was not made natural such as glass, roads or furniture.
Setting sail was bravery for Telemachus, as his second step towards manhood. Furthermore, Telemachus physical appearance is more like his father Odysseus in book four. Odysseus feet were like Telemachus and his hands as well. Telemachus had the fine shock of hair just like his father Odysseus. When Telemachus had his speech his words had all his father’s wisdom of him.
We can categorise things that we see this way. For Aristotle this is where the ‘form’ that Plato wishes to speak of resides. A table has 4 legs a flat surface, we recognise this and put it in a group we call furniture. His third cause was the efficient cause. My laptop’s efficient cause may vary from machines and people to plastic moulds and screwdrivers.