Can Science bring us closer to the truth and reality than the religious Paradigm?Aristotle
...wledge from our senses as wisdom because he believes that our senses are very limited. Our senses can help us describe or identify something but it cannot tell us why it looks like that or what is it’s purpose? Like for example, we know that fire is hot but can our senses tell us why the fire is hot? He believed that using our senses and observation is an important part of finding the truth. He believed that a person can know something better when we know what it is. Aristotle also observed that the world is made out of motion, everything changes but in order for something to move or change, it must be moved by something that is actually in motion. Unlike Plato, he believed that what our senses can identify is the real thing. He also noticed that you cannot find matter without form or form without matter in nature. Aristotle quoted “ It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of truth is possible”, by this he means that there is a limit to the knowledge that can be obtained and it is impossible to gain full knowledge so we have to be satisfied with what we know. “However, there is a science higher than natural science. For in truth nature is but one genus of that which is. It is the principles and causes of the things that are that we are seeking, and clearly it is their principles and causes just as things that are.... It is, however, vital not to overlook the question of what it is to be a thing and the definitional account of how it is what it is. If we leave these out, scientific inquiry is mere shadow boxing....” In this quote he says there is something higher than we know and if we don’t question what it is, we may be leaving out a important data which could have been useful and he describes the unknown knowledge as a “mere shadow boxing” because we don’t know what color or what the box is made out of or what is in it which makes it mysterious. In Contrast with science, Aristotle also believed in God and a soul. He called God a “Prime Mover”. He believed that God created this world and gave purpose to everything. These forms (...