Sentence examples for as a final cause from inspiring English sources
He does so by acting as a final cause.
It does not mean that, according to Whitehead and Hartshorne, God acts only as a final cause and never as an efficient cause, as Griffin has shown (Griffin 1991, 98 99).
Summarizing what was then known of the natural world, Herschel made it clear throughout that, however the Deity might be invoked as a Final Cause, there are always secondary, natural causes to be found to account for natural phenomena and that it is the natural philosopher's task to discover them.
This passage can be read to mean that speaking of a substance's representation acting (as an efficient cause?) is only a loose way of speaking; strictly speaking, it is the substance, or better, power of the substance, that acts in accordance with this representation (functioning as a final cause?).
6. See e.g. De anima (On the Soul) 2.4, 415b8-28, where after the identification of the soul as substance (i.e. as form), and as moving cause, the passage specifies a meaning in which the soul is also a final cause as beneficiary (hôi) of the processes in the living being.
The concession comes in the phrases "first in intention" (primum in intentione) and "under that aspect" (sub ea ratione), where Suárez allows that a final cause qualifies as a cause only because and to the degree that it is conceived by an intentional agent.
The Professor's indignation found in itself a final cause that absolved him from the sin of turning to destruction as the agent of his ambition.
Given that whatever is not due to chance has a final cause, teeth have a final cause.
It is teleological - governed by a dimly understood but acutely felt Ideal, or a final cause.
In his Long Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics, Book Lam, for example, he interprets Aristotle's God as an ultimate final cause of motion, not a creative agent (Genequand 1984).
