view on god

View on God

Aristotle’s great chain of being is a very controversial view on god; his thought could be seen as an atheistic view. In this particular idea he believed that god is all of us, achieving the ultimate knowledge are what a god is. A person who is self actualized and a self thinker is god. This idea of course back in the time of his existence was thought of as blasphemy, because the Greeks of that time were very god guided people, they believed that everything was because of the will of the gods. You have to understand that Greeks believed there was a god for everything. A god for nature, air, sun, moon, heaven and even hell, for a person to come and say that a human being is god; well that was just absolute garbage. He went further and added we should not be praying to anyone because we are the ones that are making things happen for ourselves not someone that is sitting in the clouds and overlooking over the earth and the universe and pulling strings and making us do things. I can definitely understand where he was coming from, although I do believe in a higher power greater than myself, but I have to see that also I too have power over my life and I have the power of reasoning and with that reasoning skills I can make my own choices, which makes us god.
The four causes are the four key questions we must ask in order to gain the best possible answers to our inquiries. Causes one and two are part of the classificatory causes, which are formal and material causes; an example of formal cause is asking, what is this object? And for material cause is, what is it made of? Causes three and four are dynamic and final efficient cause; these are the examples of each, a dynamic question would be how does this work and the answer would be the final and efficient cause, each causes work as a perfect unit, each compliment the other.
The effect would be that it gives the student something like a blue print on how to ask questions and not foolish ones but questions that are legitimate. We are all curious to know how everything works, but most of us don’t know exactly the type of questions to ask. As a humanist Aristotle gave human the power to not just be puppets for the so called gods, with that human being started to take control over their lives without the fear of upsetting the gods, priests and kings often uses god as a weapon of intimidation against their subjects, this practice kept the human mind locked and ignorant.