Sentence examples for as final cause from inspiring English sources
Verrycken (1990, 218) interprets Ammonius' conception of the relation of God and the world as based on the Neoplatonic 'procession' (God's production of the world) and 'reversion' (its direction toward God as final cause), with God conceived as the divine Intellect.
PART I THE DEATH OF DEAD THE HAPTIC VOID AS FINAL CAUSE The history of metal can be considered in terms of levels of intensity.
Let's first consider how perceptions operate as final causes.
These cases are grouped by Aristotle as efficient or moving causes on the one hand and as final causes on the other.
Aristotle proposed the existence of divine unmoved movers which act as final causes; the celestial spheres mimic the movers, as best they could, by moving with uniform circular motion.
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).
Aquinas claimed to have established the existence of God as the unmoved mover, as the ultimate efficient cause, as the necessary being, as the perfect being, and as the final cause of all beings.
While Godfrey literally borrows certain parts of his theory from the second text, he does not follow this anonymous Radical Aristotelian Arts Master when he goes on to argue that separate entities do not depend upon God as their efficient cause, but only as their final cause (Wippel, 1984), 231 44.
It is precisely this set of ideas that lies at the heart of Averroes' conception of divine providence ('ināya Allāh) as the well-ordered functioning of species (and of individuals under their species) as a result of God's functioning as the final cause in this way.
The good operates metaphysically as the final cause of the order of forms in the universe of beings.
