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What causes movement in the universe?

What causes movement in the universe?. To express how movement happens in the cosmos. To analyse the Prime Mover according to Aristotle. To evaluate the Prime Mover as a proof of God’s existence. Do Now : what do all of these things have in common? A growing plant Boiling water

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What causes movement in the universe?

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  1. What causes movement in the universe? To express how movement happens in the cosmos. To analyse the Prime Mover according to Aristotle. To evaluate the Prime Mover as a proof of God’s existence. Do Now: what do all of these things have in common? A growing plant Boiling water Soup cooling down Something burning. They are all moving and changing.

  2. Read p.1-3 in your pack and answer the following questions: • How did Aristotle claim that we gain knowledge? • Why does the chair you are sitting on exist? • What are the four types of cause? • Why are Aristotle’s ideas about cause & explanation important? • What is the theory of the Prime Mover? • What are the differences between Plato and Aristotle's idea of the soul? • What is Christian thoughts of God a combination of? (Explain each of these individually).

  3. Three great thinkers of the world…. Plato Taught Socrates Taught Aristotle = AN AMAZING EDUCATION!!!

  4. Activation: what was the chain of events which caused this to be the situation? Make a chain of events around the photo going back as far as you can. What point does each chain get to? Activation 2: Read ‘Aristotle and the Prime Mover’ from p.54/55 of your pack.

  5. Demonstration: In your own words explain Aristotle's argument for the Prime Mover. Include the terms ‘Efficient Cause’ and ‘Final Cause’. Efficient Cause = something capable of performing an action to create a result. E.g.: If I push a chair and it falls over I am the efficient cause of that chair falling over. Final Cause: The reason for something to be brought about. E.g.: God is the reason why the universe is in constant change because he provides a purpose for it to be in motion. He provides the overall attraction things have for one another which causes them to move and have an effect.

  6. Consolidation: What are the key differences between Aristotle's Prime Mover and the God of Classical Theism? Note three: 1.) 2.) 3.)

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