10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EFFICIENT CAUSE»
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Exposition of the
Efficient Cause of Regeneration: the Duty ...
EXPOSITION OF THE EFFICIENT CAUSE OF REGENERATION: THE DUTY AND
MANNER OF PREACHING TO THE UNRENEWED ; AND THE DOCTRINE OF
ELECTION. BY JOHN T. DEMAREST. " If any man speaks, let him speak as the ...
John Terhune Demarest, 1842
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The Philosophical Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas
The Second Way I. The Text The second way is from the nature of efficient cause.
In the world of sensible things we find there is an order of efficient causes. There
is no case known (neither is it, indeed, possible) in which a thing is found to be ...
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Readings in Modern Philosophy, Vol. 1: Descartes, Spinoza, ...
The efficient cause of something is sought only with respect to a thing's existence,
not its essence. For example, on seeing a triangle, I may seek the efficient cause
that brought about the existence of this triangle, but it would be absurd for me ...
Roger Ariew, Eric Watkins, 2000
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Substance and Essence in Aristotle: An Interpretation of ...
In the process of production of an artifact, the artist is the efficient cause of the
production by enforming some appropriate matter through motions that express
the form or art the artist has in mind. It is only because the artist possesses the art,
...
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Chance and Determinism in Avicenna and Averroës
Is there a contradiction with the foregoing view, propounded by Averroes and
highlighted by Davidson, that God is not an efficient cause? Averroes claims that
we look for the efficient cause mainly in generable and corruptible things.43 As
he ...
Catarina Carriço Marques de Moura Belo, 2007
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Aquinas: A New Introduction
The efficient cause is cause of the final cause and the final cause is the cause of
the efficient cause, though in different respects. Concurring with Aristotle,
Aquinas states, . . . The efficient cause is the cause of the final cause inasmuch
as it ...
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Classical Arabic Philosophy: An Anthology of Sources
As for the efficient cause, this is the very object of our investigation, and it is only
by identifying it that we shall find the final cause. [This is] because the final cause
is either above the efficient cause (I mean as what compels one to act) or it is ...
Jon McGinnis, David C. Reisman, 2007
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A Theory of Physical Probability
It corresponds closely to Aristotle's notion of efficient cause, so let us call it that.
The efficient cause is, according to Aristotle in the Physics? the 'primary source of
the change' (194b, 30). An efficient cause brings about, or produces, its effect.
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The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus
The final cause need not cause the existence of the efficient cause, of course; the
payment does not make the sculptor exist. Rather, the final cause (payment)
causes the efficient cause (sculptor) to exercise his efficient powers to produce
the ...
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Descartes's Changing Mind
According to the “strict” formulation espoused by Arnauld, an efficient cause is
distinct from its effect, and literally causes, in an antecedently existing thing, the
being of an effect. Descartes aptly summarizes Arnauld's objections: he explains
at ...
Peter Machamer, J. E. McGuire, 2009
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EFFICIENT CAUSE»
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Craig Sallander: Modern science proves to be a blessing
In his "Argument from Efficient Cause," St. Thomas Aquinas reasoned that because nothing can cause itself, God caused the universe to exist. «La Crosse Tribune, Jul 15»
The role of logic in philosophy: A Q&A with Elijah Millgram
... that Aristotle says there are four causes for a substance: there is the formal cause, the efficient cause, the final cause and the material cause. «OUPblog, Jun 15»
THEORY AND CRITIQUE: The Raw and the Cooked
I begin with the efficient cause of this talk: I kept meeting art professors, who, when I asked them what they did, said “Theory.” Since there is no ... «Brooklyn Rail, May 15»
The subjective view of work
After all, isn't man the efficient cause in the process of production and capital a mere instrument or instrumental cause in the entire production ... «The Manila Times, Apr 15»
Vijay Seshadri, OC '74, Salutes Oberlin in Final Convocation
... Philosophy after an inspiring encounter with Pultizer Prize–winning poet Galway Kinnell, whom he cites as the “efficient cause” of his poetry. «The Oberlin Review, Apr 15»
Foreknown Freedom
Voluntary causes might express the will of God, of angels, of men, or even (if we can call instinct voluntary) of animals. No efficient cause comes ... «First Things, Feb 15»
C.S. Lewis on Vocation in the Economy of Wisdom
... things around you live, and how all that hangs together and lives out of the one efficient cause that proceeds from God's power and wisdom.”. «Acton Institute, Feb 15»
Scientific Seeker Stuart Kauffman on Free Will, God, ESP and Other …
It seems "fact free," as John Maynard Smith said, because we were finding not efficient cause laws, but kinds of what might be called just math ... «Scientific American, Feb 15»
Anne Kansiime - a Philosophical Inquiry Into the Political Economy …
... infinity, and magnificence; efficient cause is the tension of nerves and not their relaxation as in the beautiful, while the final cause is the fact of ... «AllAfrica.com, Dec 14»
The myths of Indian nationalism
To those schooled in Indian nationalist history, Anderson's most unsettling claim is that the Raj cannot be seen as an “efficient cause” of ... «International Viewpoint, Dec 14»
