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The Four Causes; 1. Aristotle’s doctrine of the four causes is crucial, but easily misunderstood. It is natural for us (post-Humeans) to think of causes in terms of cause-and-effect. This is misleading in several ways: a. Only one of Aristotle’s causes (the “efficient” cause) sounds even remotely like a;
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Four causes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In Aristotle's Metaphysics, there are four main causes of change in nature: the material cause , the formal cause , the efficient cause , and the final cause . Each of these "causes" was a dif...
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Aristotle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης , Aristotélēs ) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metap...
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Aristotle, as he himself tells us, was the first philosopher to identify all four kinds of causes. Each cause is a different kind of answer to the question "why?" There are four kinds ... Aristotle developed his account of the four causes from his analysis of change. (Click here for a summary of this analysis of change).
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Aristotle's four causes in philosophy. ... The 'four causes' provide answers to four questions one might ask about something, for example, a man: ... The four causes, especially the first two, are closely linked to Aristotle's important dichotomy between matter and form (hylomorphism).
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A survey of the history of Western philosophy. ... Armed with these distinctions, Aristotle proposed in Physics II, 3 that we employ four very different kinds of explanatory principle {Gk. aition [aition]} to the question of why a thing is, the four causes:
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Distinction between the events involved in a causal relationship, where the occurrence of one (the cause) is supposed to bring about or produce an occurrence of the other (the effect). ... Aristotle's distinction in the Physics among four answers to the question of why something is:
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Although not all things which admit of explanation have all four causes, e.g., geometrical figures are not efficiently caused, even a brief overview of his psychological writings reveals that Aristotle regards all four causes as in play in the explanation of living beings.
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