The Four Causes
The Four Causes
The Four Causes
The Four Causes What are there four of? Aristotle’s doctrine of the four causes is crucial, but easily misunderstood. It is natural for us (post-Humeans) to think of (what Aristotle […]
The Four Causes
Aristotle wanted to ask what causes something to be what it is, to have the characteristics that it has, or to change in the way that it does? This sort […]
These two notions are then [Physics II, 3, 7, 12] linked to the two central concepts Aristotle uses in his natural philosophy, namely, nature and ‘explanatory item’ or ‘factor’ (aition) […]