Compare And Contrast Aristotle's God And The Creation Of The Universe Essay

God and the Creation of the Universe

Aristotle lived before the writings of the New Testament and the birth of Jesus of Nazareth born in Bethlehem of Judaea. Aristotle was a theoretical philosopher confident that his endeavors to understand the world would succeed. Aristotle agreed with is teacher (Plato) about many things; the existence of God, the presence of oppose in the world, and the creation of the universe, (the connection between virtue and happiness). According to Mason on God and Nature (161) Aristotle (and Plato), played a major part in making belief in a single supreme God more wide spread, the idea of a creator God was not widespread among all the Greek philosophers and thinkers. Aristotle (c. 384–322 BC), often posited first cause arguments, that had certain notable cause, and saw ex nihilo nihil as proof for God and the Creation of the Universe (Mason 3, 28, 161 and Waterman Lecture Notes).

According to Waterman, Aristotle was not familiar with the Hebrew Scriptures and the creation accounts in the Book of Genesis, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” and there is no concept of providence in Aristotle’s god where this god looks after and cares for human beings. According to Waterman, his god also did not create the universe and only causes its motion. Thus,

Aristotle called his god the Unmoved Mover and this god of Aristotle bears little resemblance to the Judeo-Christian God. Prime mover/Un-mover meant "that which moves without being moved" A as a primary cause or "mover" of all the motion in the universe, the "unmoved mover" moves other things, but is not itself moved by any prior action (Waterman Lecture Notes).
Aristotle believed in an eternal cosmos with no beginning and no end, and in natural theology, a cosmological argument (first cause argument) is an argument in which the existence of a unique being, God and the creation of the Universe and identified a theological correspondence between the “Unmoved Movers (prime mover) and deity; functionally, however, he provided an explanation for the apparent motion of the "fixed stars" (now understood as the daily rotation of the Earth).

According to his theses, immaterial unmoved movers are eternal unchangeable beings that constantly think about thinking, but being immaterial; they're incapable of interacting with the

cosmos.
Aristotle differed from Empedocles in that, Empedocles theory was the presentation of the "four element theory", Fire, water, air, and earth are the ultimate roots (substances) of all things, they are ingenerated and indestructible (The Ancient Greek Esoteric Doctrine of; The Elements), and Aristotle, theory that everything in the universe was matter and that that all matter in the universe is made up of small, individual, finite, and indivisible particles called “atoms”, which were atomism and infinite divisibility (Waterman Lecture Notes PH 201 U2).
In conclusion, Aristotle Prime mover/Un-mover (god), “that which moves without being moved" A as a primary cause or "mover" of all the motion in the universe. The "unmoved mover" moves other things, but is not itself moved by any prior action. Aristotle describes the unmoved mover as being perfectly beautiful, indivisible, and contemplating only the perfect contemplation: itself contemplating. He equates this concept also with the Active Intellect. This Aristotelian concept had its roots in cosmological speculations of the earliest Greek "Pre-Socratic" philosophers and became highly influential and widely drawn upon in medieval philosophy and theology, “Unmoved Mover”. Aristotle calls his “god” the unmoved (Roochnik 6159-185).