1.2. Human purposes are always connected with goodness
1.3. Goodness is a basic explanation of why things exist. E.g sharp teeth
1.4. Aristotle uses the metaphor of artificer and artifact. A personified nature fashioning the matter in whatever form is best.
2. 3.Teleology in Nature (Fusica)
2.1. Things happen in nature because they serve a purpose. The regularities we find in nature are not due to chance but to purpose.
2.2. Love brings about haphazard combinations and the useful ones survive
2.3. Analogy between nature and human design. As if designed for a purpose. Allowing them to flourish.
3. 5.The Ultimate End
3.1. Each of the various parts are for something. E.g efficient functioning of body. And the body for; living an appropriate life.
3.2. The appropriate life is the ultimate goal - other features purposes are to be explained in how they contribute
4. 1.What is Teleology?
4.1. Goal, task, end, completion
4.2. Teleological explanations contribute to attainment of goals
4.3. Aristotelian teleology posits analogy between nature and well designed artifacts
4.4. The explanandum generates an explanans
4.5. Cause in Greek is aitia
5. 2.Aristotle's 4 causes
5.1. There are 4 causes: Material, formal, efficient and final
5.2. Efficient cause = Why is he walking. To get healthy Final cause = Why did they go to war. To gain control. Material cause = bronze is material cause of sculpture. Formal cause = Response to what it is. What is its definition.
