Reflection papaer#14

Aristotle was an important man in his own time. He wanted to classify all things, not only in a way that would make it expedient to store and retrieve information, but in the correct way -- the very system that is built into the universe. The Great Chain of Being is made up of God, Angels, Demons, Man, Animals, Plants, Materials; each having their own characteristic. The Great Chain of Being was said to be a metaphor served to express the indescribable plentitude of God’s creation. Every link that came from the chain was a speck of God’s creation. The great chain of being was sometimes called the ladder of creation. In this ladder came what they called Phylogenetic Scale. This scale was made up of different types of animal categories. Each category had its own individual rank and designation. Aristotle’s version of the great chain of being titles his “God” as the unmoved mover. Aristotle terminated that there must be a first, unmoved mover in order to explain every other motion that is of existence. He believed that there was something in the beginning of the creating of motion that caused it to be of existence. He also stated that if motion were not everlasting, then that time didn’t always exist. Time is what determines motion and as Aristotle said, the concept that time has not always been in existence has never been proven. Motion cannot stop and if it does something must cause it to discontinue. Therefore if there was no unmoved mover, there would be no motion. Basically from what I grasped from that section of the article, Aristotle believed that God is the initiator of creation and without him there would have been no creation. He believed that there is only one unmoved mover and that the unmoved mover that causes motion to be of existence is indeed eternal. I agree 100% with his concept of the unmoved mover. In order for something to be present there has to be something or someone that positioned it to be there. God is sturdy and is above all that is frail. If God was fragile he would be breakable, and that’s basically the point that Aristotle made when he elaborated on the unmoved mover. Aristotle’s four causes were of great importance and inquired into the nature of causes. The whole conception of it was to point out that a person does not understand a cause only when they can say it what it is, however they grasp the primary cause when they are able to know and understand the principles of the cause, thus being able to explain it into what they inquire.