The Cosmos
What is cosmology?
The study of the cosmos/universe
Medieval Islamic thinker and commentator of Aristotle
Averroes
An effect cannot be greater than its
cause
Flesh, bones, human cells, tissue, tendons
Material cause of man
Wood, gloss
Material Cause
The ordered whole of creation
Cosmos
St. Thomas Aquinas
Provides an explanation (the 'why') for all existing things (both living and non-living)
Four Causes
Oak Acorn
Efficient Cause of an Oak Tree
Glass, plastic and metal
material cause
The First and Ultimate Cause of the cosmos/universe (according to Catholic philosophy)
God
Siger of Brabant
Something cannot come from
Trunk, roots, branches, leaves
Formal Cause
formal cause
Believed that the cosmos/universe was eternal
Aristotle
The belief that there are two kinds of truth—one from philosophy and one from religion.
Double Truth Theory
Cosmos/universe/creation
The theory that living things (and artificial things) have an end/purpose for which it is made
teleology
To facilitate communication and to entertain
Final Cause
God created the universe
ex nihilo/out of nothing
According to Catholic philosophy, helps understand why the universe exists
Faith/Revelation
Famous Aristotelian text that discusses the final cause of man (men and women)
Nichomachaen Ethics
Happiness
The theory that all created things are composite of matter and form
hylomorphism