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Aristotle's Four Causes

Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)

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.weiterlesen

Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-1-4331-5929-9 / 978-1433159299 / 9781433159299

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 05.12.2018

Seiten: 280

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Boris Hennig

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