![]() ![]() He also asserts that, “ by nature man seeks knowledge.” Since final cause is the highest knowledge of first principles (metaphysics), to satisfy man’s natural desire for knowledge (and reflect his capacity for knowledge), knowledge of the final cause is ultimately what science aims for. ![]() All four stack upon each, that is to say, they build upon each other because Aristotle’s metaphysics is hierarchal in nature. We already examined Aristotle’s Metaphysics in this post, but to go over again very briefly: Aristotle asserts four causes of metaphysics, the material, formal, efficient, and final causes. ![]() ![]() In many ways, the debate between “science” and “faith” is the legacy between Aristotle’s epistemology, a contest between his interpreters, defenders, and heirs, and those of the “New Science” of Francis Bacon. Physics, along with Metaphysics, is Aristotle’s systematized natural philosophy and epistemology, the link between the two, and how they ultimately interact with each other (how natural philosophy leads to metaphysics). In Book II of the Physics, Aristotle distinguishes between natural philosophy, as an outgrowth of his treatise in part A of Book II concerning things in nature, and other forms of philosophy: mathematics and metaphysics. Aristotle is considered the father of natural science because he was the father of natural philosophy. ![]()
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