By contrast, Aristotle was a empiricist, meaning his ideas came from the senses and experience. ... Aristotle based his philosophy primarily on the concept of entelechy, which is essentially the idea that every object exists for its own purposes, and the driving force for all objects is to fulfill their purposes. Aristotle, who believed as a scientist that a focus on understanding the observable world was the priority, explained reality and entelechy by the four causes. ...

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Materialism is not an empirical philosophy. ... Aristotle introduces the soul as the form of the body, which in turn is said to be the matter of the soul. In understanding hylomorphism, one needs to understand Aristotle's four causes. ... Aristotle said that the soul is an essential form. ... Aristotle claims that "it is not unclear that the soul or certain parts of it, if it naturally has partsis not separable from the body."" ...

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Regardless of the agreed upon definition of time, the philosophy involved in the comprehension of time truly does weigh heavily on the human psyche. ... Some people hold that time is cyclical - related to Aristotle's belief that time is similar to a circle, with no beginning or ending. ... It is this view that ties religious philosophies to those of time. ... (Dowden) Aristotle argued that time was neither the circular motion of the heavens, nor any other motion, but that time is used to measure motion. Another theory, in contrast to Aristotle's, was proposed by Thomas Aquinas and...

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