GNED02 MODULE3

Certain desposition

Habits

Thomas Aquinas

this sense of right and wrong must be informed, guided, and ultimately grounded in an objective basis for morality.

Neo-platonic good

God creates. This does not only means that He brings about beings, but it also means that He cares for, and thus governs, the activity of the universe and of every creature.

Aristotelian Being and Becoming Four Causes

1. Material cause

2. Formal cause

3. Efficient cause

4. Final cause

Material Cause

we recognize that any being we can see around is corporeal, possessed of a certain materiality or physical “stuff”.

Formal cause

the shape that makes a being a particular kind can be called its form.

Efficient cause

there is something which brings about the presence of another being.

Final cause

a being has an apparent end or goal.

Essence

we cannot simply act in pursuit of our own ends or good without any regard for other people‟s ends or good. We are not isolated beings, but beings who belong to a community as well as our own good.

Varieties

We have noted earlier how God, by His wisdom, is the Creator of all beings. By saying this, we do not only recognize God as the source of these beings, but also acknowledge the way they have been created and the way they could return to Him, which is the work of His divine reason itself.