ARISTOTLE

1. TELEOLOGICAL SYSTEM

1.1. Material Cause: the material from which the thing is made.

1.2. Formal Cause: the shape of form a thing must take in order to be recognized.

1.3. Efficient cause: The actual force used to make the thing.

1.4. Final Cause: What is the ultimate purpose of the thing.

2. BIOLOGY

2.1. All men have a natural desire to learn.

2.1.1. We are given senses to understand the physical world around us, without our senses, we are unable to process information.

2.1.2. Humans differ from other animals because we have the ability to REASON.

3. How does he differ from Plato?

3.1. A: is a scientific practical thinker.

3.2. A:believed the answers we desire can be found in this world, and therefore does not believe in the other World of Forms.

3.3. A: believed that everything we can understand are the things we can touch.

3.4. A: created and applied a scientific model to philosophical investigation.