Multiple choice

Directions: The passage given below is followed by four alternative summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. Key in the number of the option you choose as your answer.

Aristotle’s theology is based on his perception that there must be something above and beyond the chains of cause and effect for those chains to exist at all. Aristotle perceives change and motion as deep mysteries. Everything is subject to change and motion, but nothing changes or moves without cause.

  1. Anything stationary in the world cannot be assumed to cause any change.

  2. Tracing how things cause one another to change and move is the source of many of Aristotle’s most fundamental insights.

  3. Anything that moves or changes might be ultimately traced to something that could not move or change.

  4. If all causes have antecedent causes, there is no first cause that causes motion and change to exist in the first place.
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Explanation
  1. Not true. According to Aristotle, everything is subject to change and thus everything is caused. Nothing about “stationary” has been said.
    1. Not true. The subject here is not to discuss Aristotle’s insights.
    2. Not True. The essence is opposite to what has been said in the option, i.e. anything that moves or changes is caused by something that could itself move or change.
    3. True. This captures the essence. If something has been caused, this means a change or motion has happened. Since no change is without cause, this means every cause has a cause preceded by another cause and so on, there, thus being no first cause.

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