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Aristotle and the causes

Aristotle can make Plato seem like primary school reading. Many of Aristotle’s arguments are dense and complex, so Jon Mayled clarifies what he wrote about the four causes and the prime mover

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OCR G571: AS Philosophy of religion

Aristotle (384–322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and polymath. He studied with Plato and taught Alexander the Great. Much of his writing has been lost but what remains covers subjects as diverse as physics, metaphysics, poetry, theatre, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology. His theories of ethics were to some extent rediscovered with the twentieth-century interest in virtue ethics.

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