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Jan 11, 2006 · Evidently, Aristotle expects his reader to be already familiar with his general account of the four causes as well as his defense of final causality. The problem that here concerns Aristotle is presented in the following way: since both the final and the efficient cause are involved in the explanation of natural generation, we have to establish what is first and what is second ( PA 639 b 12–13).
- Aristotle's Metaphysics
The first major work in the history of philosophy to bear...
- Episteme and Techne
In the first place, epistêmê refers to the particular...
- Aristotle's Metaphysics
Abstract. Material objects change, and their changes are caused. The scientist’s world is full of causes, and scientific knowledge requires the capacity to state causes and to give explanations. We should expect Aristotle’s scientific treatises to contain many causal pronouncements and explanations, and his philosophical essays to include ...
Oct 8, 2000 · The first major work in the history of philosophy to bear the title “Metaphysics” was the treatise by Aristotle that we have come to know by that name. But Aristotle himself did not use that title or even describe his field of study as ‘metaphysics’; the name was evidently coined by the first century C.E. editor who assembled the ...
Sep 25, 2008 · Aristotle. First published Thu Sep 25, 2008; substantive revision Tue Aug 25, 2020. Aristotle (384–322 B.C.E.) numbers among the greatest philosophers of all time. Judged solely in terms of his philosophical influence, only Plato is his peer: Aristotle’s works shaped centuries of philosophy from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance, and ...
Jun 26, 2011 · Aristotle's Physics presents four types of cause: formal, material, final and efficient. Peter looks at all four, and asks whether evolutionary theory undermines final causes in nature. • J. Annas, “Aristotle on Inefficient Causes,” Philosophical Quarterly 32 (1982), reprinted in T. Irwin (ed.), Aristotle: Metaphysics, Epistemology ...
May 12, 2023 · Aristotle's Four Causes theory is one of the oldest and most influential philosophical theories in history. It was first introduced by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle in the 4th century BC. The theory is based on the idea that everything that exists is caused by four different types of causes: material, formal, efficient, and final.
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The educationist David Waddington comments that although the efficient cause, which he identifies as "the craftsman," might be thought the most significant of the four, in his view each of Heidegger's four causes is "equally co-responsible" for producing a craft item, in Heidegger's terms "bringing forth" the thing into existence. Waddington cites Lovitt's description of this bringing forth as ...
