How To Use final cause In A Sentence
- For though even the residua are occasionally used by nature for some useful purpose, yet we must not in all cases expect to find such a final cause; for granted the existence in the body of this or that constituent, with such and such properties, many results must ensue merely as necessary consequences of these properties. On the Parts of Animals
- In the first place, as every cause to which we can ascend is only an effect, it follows that it is the scope, that is, the aim, of philosophy to trace up the series of effects and causes until we arrive at _causes which are not in themselves effects_, "[281] -- that is, to ultimate and final causes. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
- Man, according to Spinoza, believes that everything (God, nature, man himself) acts through final causes (ends, purposes) be - cause he does not know the true causes and refers all natural phenomena to himself; that is, as if nature were directed to man's benefit (anthropocentrism) by God, who is imagined to be a sort of superman (anthropo - morphism). Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- But a creature is called a vestige based on properties which point to God as triple cause “ efficient, formal, and final cause; for example, the properties: one, true, and good.” [ Amputee
- Furthermore, the necessitarian (like Spinoza) is forced to deny a number of (to Clarke) obvious points, including that things could be different than they are, that there are final causes in the universe, and that there is any variety of finite things in the universe (because an infinite, unfree cause can produce only infinite effects). Samuel Clarke
- I understood well enough that the explosion of fuel and air was caused by sudden compression, but that wasn't a final cause. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
- The final cause of death won't be released until we get full toxicology and tests back. The Sun
- We then see how thinking in terms of final causes was revived in the works of Immanuel Kant and William Paley, but now found itself faced with the problem of accommodating progressionist and evolutionist thinking.
- You have apparently managed to rationalise this to yourself in terms of a pseudo-Stoic teleological sophistry in which every passion has a "final cause" -- an essential purpose -- such that action at odds with these essential purposes represents an immoral "disordering" of the appetites, an unacceptable misdirection from their natural/mandatory objects. Archive 2009-08-01
- We then see how thinking in terms of final causes was revived in the works of Immanuel Kant and William Paley, but now found itself faced with the problem of accommodating progressionist and evolutionist thinking.
