In Book Twelve of one work, this thinker claimed that forty-seven or fifty-five gods might be needed toexplain the separate motions of the heavenly bodies, but clarified that there could only logically be one, a"thought thinking about thinking" which turns potentialities to actualities.
In Book Twelve of one work, this thinker claimed that forty-seven or fifty-five gods might be needed toexplain the separate motions of the heavenly bodies, but clarified that there could only logically be one, a"thought thinking about thinking" which turns potentialities to actualities. In his History of the Animals,this thinker was the first to arrange organisms on a "Great Chain of Being." His works on such concepts asthe "unmoved mover" and "the four causes" survive largely as lecture notes. For 10 points, name thisauthor of On the Heavens and the books of logic in the Organon, a Greek founder of the Lyceum whosethoughts survive in the Metaphysics and Nicomachean Ethics.
In Book Twelve of one work, this thinker claimed that forty-seven or fifty-five gods might be needed toexplain the separate motions of the heavenly bodies, but clarified that there could only logically be one, a"thought thinking about thinking" which turns potentialities to actualities.
Aristotle of Stagira [or Aristoteles]