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According to Aristotle, all natural things on this earth both animate and inanimate have a built in purpose. Added to that concept, he felt that nature as grand whole itself had a purpose or greater design as well. However, Aristotle that these category of things remained fixed and hence did not believe in evolution, he did speak of a grand hierarchy amongst all things on this planet. The scala naturae refers to the fact that nature is arranged in a hierarchy ranging from neutral matter to the unmoved mover, which is pure actuality and is the cause of everything in nature. Aristotle felt that the unmoved mover is what gives all objects their true purpose in life. In his works, the closer to the unmoved mover something is the purer and perfect

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