Armando de la Torre 3

For the greeks, science is to discover the cause of something.

Cause: all that produces the existence of other things. (Episteme)

The Greeks had four kinds of causes:

• Efficient: That which present causes another (who did it?)
• Material: what something is made up of (stone, rubber)
• Formal: what something represents, the shape it represents (a horse, a god)
• Final: the purpose of something, what it was made for. 

There is always a reason for things that people do. There is a purpose in everything.

Scientific Revolution:

The regularities that Kepler proves about Copernicus' theory is what we now know as natural laws. (Kepler's laws).

• When people changed from the Greek way of thinking to the modern one, this is what happened:
• the material and formal cause cease to function and at the end are discarded. 
• the modern stat to explain everything through numbers. 
• moderns only took into account the efficient cause. 
• humans started being studied as a machine. 
• Final cause is reestablished (intentions). Specially in economics, but it only count for the study of humans, the rest of nature only uses the efficient cause. 

Consciousness is what separates us from the rest of the animals.