PHILOS 25A Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Polykleitos, Unmoved Mover
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Aristotle"s physics ii (part 2): causes: basics of aristotle"s theory of causes and causality. Ambiguities of causes: consider polycleitus the artist is the cause of the statue. Aristotle says that causes must be specified on the correct level of generality. General things have general causes: furthermore, there are immediate and remote causes. Without the knowledge, polycleitus could not even conceive of sculpting a statue in the first place. The knowledge is the unmoved mover , the terminating point for the cause of the statue: we should look always for the topmost cause of each thing. Thus a man builds because he is a builder, and a builder builds in accordance with the art of building; the art of building, then, is the prior cause, and similarly in all cases. November 10, 2014 kinds of cause for kinds of things, and particular causes for particular things.
