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Aristotle's Four Causes

  • Hardback
  • 280 pages
  • Publisher: Peter Lang US
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

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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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  • Title

    Aristotle's Four Causes

  • Author

    Boris Hennig

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Peter Lang US

  • Published

    December 2018

  • Weight

    563g

  • Page Count

    280

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781433159299

  • ISBN-10

    1433159295

  • Eden Code

    5318262

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