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Prime Mover

Is THE Final Cause of everything

Characteristics

Knows nothing of the world

Unable to intervene

No relationship with anything else

Only knows of himself

Thinks only of himself

Has a gravitational effect

We are drawn towards him

Good

Eternal

Similar to the modern idea of God

Influenced Aquinas' Cosmological Argument

Has Necessary existence

Spiritual not physical

Unchanging

Outside time

Outside the Universe

Potentiality and Actuality

Something is causing this 'movement'

Something must give everything its purpose to realise its potential

Everything has the potential to become something else

Everthing is in a state of change, or movement

Four Causes

Final

The purpose of something

Formal

The form of something

Efficient

The cause of somthing

Material

The substance of something