Aristotle's Four Causes Hardback
by Boris Hennig
Hardback
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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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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:280 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Publication Date:05/12/2018
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- ISBN:9781433159299
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:280 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Publication Date:05/12/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781433159299