1. What causes movement in the universe?
To express how movement happens in the cosmos.
To analyse the Prime Mover according to Aristotle.
To evaluate the Prime Mover as a proof of God’s existence.
Do Now: what do all of these things have in common?
A growing plant
Boiling water
Soup cooling down
Something burning.
They are all moving and changing.

2. Read p.1-3 in your pack and answer the following questions:
How did Aristotle claim that we gain knowledge?
Why does the chair you are sitting on exist?
What are the four types of cause?
Why are Aristotle’s ideas about cause & explanation important?
What is the theory of the Prime Mover?
What are the differences between Plato and Aristotle's idea of the soul?
What is Christian thoughts of God a combination of? (Explain each of these individually).

3. Three great thinkers of the world….
Plato
Taught
Socrates
Taught
Aristotle
= AN AMAZING EDUCATION!!!

4. Activation: what was the chain of events which caused this to be the situation?
Make a chain of events around the photo going back as far as you can.
What point does each chain get to?
Activation 2: Read ‘Aristotle and the Prime Mover’ from p.54/55 of your pack.

5. Final Cause: The reason for something to be brought about.
Demonstration: In your own words explain Aristotle's argument for the Prime Mover.
Include the terms ‘Efficient Cause’ and ‘Final Cause’.
Efficient Cause = something capable of performing an action to create a result.
E.g.: If I push a chair and it falls over I am the efficient cause of that chair falling over.
Final Cause: The reason for something to be brought about.
E.g.: God is the reason why the universe is in constant change because he provides a purpose for it to be in motion. He provides the overall attraction things have for one another which causes them to move and have an effect.

6. Consolidation: What are the key differences between Aristotle's Prime Mover and the God of Classical Theism?
Note three: 1.) 2.) 3.)