- Anglický jazyk
Aristotle's Four Causes
Autor: Boris Hennig
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,... Viac o knihe
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O knihe
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.
- Vydavateľstvo: Peter Lang
- Rok vydania: 2018
- Formát: Hardback
- Rozmer: 231 x 155 mm
- Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
- ISBN: 9781433159299