Sentence examples for the final causes from inspiring English sources
Its subtopics are "Of Man and his connections," "Of Duty, or Moral Obligation," "The Final Causes of our Moral Faculties of Perception and Affection," "The Principal Distinctions of Duty or Virtue," "Of Man's Duty to Himself," "Of the Nature of Good, and the Chief Good," "Duties to Society," and so on.
Through such a metaphysics, he maintained, the final causes of life itself might be discovered; its insights inspired him to an exalted pantheistic trust in nature that is movingly expressed in essays on Marcus Aurelius (in Nouveaux essais) and Iphigeneia (in Derniers essais).
Other experts think that disease combined with competition with escaped honeybees for nest hollows were the final causes for extinction of the Carolina parakeet.
As for teleology, Boyle wrote an influential treatise entitled A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things which appeared in 1686.
He is quite happy with explanations of natural phenomena by means of efficient causes in general, but he will also often speak of final causes: what is unclear is whether the final causes he speaks of (with varying degrees of strength in different works) have any explanatory role to play that cannot be reduced to efficient causality (Adams 1998; cf. Goddu 1999).
But note, also, that Aquinas holds that all final causality must be governed, indirectly or not, by an intellect (Wippel 2000, p. 412); in the case of a good number of the final causes in the world, this intellect would be God's.
The final cause perhaps does not exist.
There is the final cause and there is the motor cause.
This negligent turn violated every notion of good seamanship and was the final cause of the collision.
Boyd, an assistant chief deputy coroner, said it would take several more weeks to determine the final cause of death.
