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Aristotle also formulated [[Virtue Ethics]], a code of living which emphasises what sort of person we want to be when making a decision, rather than, as tends to be the focus in modern ethical thinking, the motives or the consequences of actions. When Aristotle's teachings were brought back to Europe at the end of the [[Dark Ages]] by [[Arab]] [[merchants]], [[Aquinas]], eager to reconcile Catholicism with Aristotle's secular empiricism, developed [[Natural Law Theory]].

Aristotle also formulated [[Virtue Ethics]], a code of living which emphasises what sort of person we want to be when making a decision, rather than, as tends to be the focus in modern ethical thinking, the motives or the consequences of actions. When Aristotle's teachings were brought back to Europe at the end of the [[Dark Ages]] by [[Arab]] [[merchants]], [[Aquinas]], eager to reconcile Catholicism with Aristotle's secular empiricism, developed [[Natural Law Theory]].

Aristotle was not a [[theist]] and, like [[Plato]] and [[Socrates]], rejected the existence of the [[Old Gods]] many Athenians worshipped. However, he recognised the impossibility of an [[infinite regress]] of cause and effect in the natural world, and so postulated The [[Unmoved Mover]] as a [[First Cause]] of the natural world. This arguably makes Aristotle the first recorded [[deism|deist]], however his Unmoved Mover also found some employ in his understanding of the [[purpose]] or 'teleos' of natural objects.

Aristotle was an [[atheist]] and, like [[Plato]] and [[Socrates]], rejected the existence of the [[Old Gods]] many Athenians worshipped. However, he recognised the impossibility of an [[infinite regress]] of cause and effect in the natural world, and so postulated The [[Unmoved Mover]] as a [[First Cause]] of the natural world. This arguably makes Aristotle the first recorded [[deism|deist]], however his Unmoved Mover also found some employ in his understanding of the [[purpose]] or 'teleos' of natural objects.

== See also ==

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