Sentence examples for be the efficient causes from inspiring English sources

If the soul's immanent operations such as thinking or willing inhere in their respective powers, the intellect and the will, those powers themselves cannot be the efficient causes of such acts.

The agent is the efficient cause of the act, and there is no separate act, the exertion, of which he or she needs to be the efficient cause in order to have acted freely.

According to Reid it follows that if I exert my power and thereby do a cartwheel, then I will be the efficient cause of my cartwheel.

Because of this he denies that any substance can be the efficient cause of the accidents that inhere in it, for it would then be in act with respect to them (as their efficient cause) and in potency (as receiving them) at one and the same time.

Reid does not rest content to defend the claim that human beings are the efficient causes of their own behavior by responding to the best objections to it; he also provides three positive arguments for the claim which he labels the 'first', 'second' and 'third argument for moral liberty'.

Reid argues that this position is inconsistent with Hume's claim that impressions are the efficient causes of ideas.

In fact, Reid holds that all and only our free actions are those events of which we are the efficient causes.

First, from the formal cause, accident could be the cause of individuation, but from the efficient cause the principles of substance (matter and form) are the efficient causes of the one substance.

His argument, then, makes a contribution to the question of whether or not people are the efficient causes of their own behavior by posing a further, and difficult problem for those, like Hume, who deny it on the grounds that our behavior is law-governed.

In a rare, uncharacteristically candid agreement, he admitted that "this kernel of Kant's doctrine I accept unreservedly": "space and all spatial connections are merely forms of our subjective intuition, not applicable to those things and those relations of things which are the efficient causes of all particular sensuous intuitions" (Micro, II, pp. 603 604).

In the first stage of creation, she awakens in her dual aspect of action-and-becoming, in which she is the instrumental and material cause of the universe; Vishnu himself is the efficient cause.