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Aristotle's Four Causes

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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.

Table des matières

Acknowledgements - Introduction - Aristotle's Four Causes - Two Epistemic Directions of Fit - Tode, Ti, Toionde - The Inseparability of Matter - Types and Classes - Essences vs. Properties - Causation - Causal Processes - Basic and Derived Final Causes - Teleological Reasoning - Conclusion - Bibliography - Index.

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Boris Hennig is Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Ryerson University in Toronto. He earned his PhD from Universität Leipzig. His research focuses on metaphysics, logic, and epistemology.

Résumé

This book examines Aristotle's four causes (material, formal, efficient, and final cause), offering a systematic discussion of the relation between form and matter, causation, taxonomy, and teleology.

Détails du produit

Auteurs Boris Hennig
Edition Peter Lang
 
Langues Anglais
Format d'édition Livre Relié
Sortie 01.01.2018
 
EAN 9781433159299
ISBN 978-1-4331-5929-9
Pages 280
Dimensions 150 mm x 20 mm x 225 mm
Poids 484 g
Catégories Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Philosophie: général, ouvrages de référence
Sciences humaines, art, musique > Philosophie

History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / General, Simpson, Philosophy, boris, Religion & beliefs, hennig, Popular philosophy, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Aristotle, Meagan, Aristotle's

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