Fwd: RE: From Conscious Immortality

[Guest guest]

Aristotle's teleological argument comes to mind. e.g. " God and

nature do

nothing in vain. "

 

Aristotle believed that a form, with the exception of the Prime

Mover, or

God, had no separate existence, but rather was immanent in matter.

Thus, in

the Aristotelian system, form and matter together constitute concrete

individual realities; the Platonic system holds that a concrete

reality

partakes of a form (the ideal) but does not embody it. Aristotle

believed

that form caused matter to move and defined motion as the process by

which

the potentiality of matter (the thing itself) became the actuality

of form

(motion itself). He held that the Prime Mover alone was pure form

and as the

³unmoved mover² and final cause was the goal of all motion. (The

Columbia

Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001.)

 

 

Aristotle concluded that God was the Unmoved Mover.

 

Kind Regards,

Miles