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- Author: Boris Hennig
- Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
- ISBN-10: 1433159295
- ISBN-13: 9781433159299
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm, hardcover
- Language: English
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This book examines Aristotle's four causes (material, formal, efficient, and final), offering a systematic discussion of the relation between form and matter, causation, taxonomy, and teleology. The overall aim is to show that the four causes form a system, so that the form of a natural thing relates to its matter as the final cause of a natural process relates to its efficient cause. Aristotle's Four Causes reaches two novel and distinctive conclusions. The first is that the formal cause or essence of a natural thing is not a property of this thing but a generic natural thing. The second is that the final cause of a process is not its purpose but the course that processes of its kind typically take.
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- Author: Boris Hennig
- Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
- ISBN-10: 1433159295
- ISBN-13: 9781433159299
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm, hardcover
- Language: English English
This book examines Aristotle's four causes (material, formal, efficient, and final), offering a systematic discussion of the relation between form and matter, causation, taxonomy, and teleology. The overall aim is to show that the four causes form a system, so that the form of a natural thing relates to its matter as the final cause of a natural process relates to its efficient cause. Aristotle's Four Causes reaches two novel and distinctive conclusions. The first is that the formal cause or essence of a natural thing is not a property of this thing but a generic natural thing. The second is that the final cause of a process is not its purpose but the course that processes of its kind typically take.
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