英语词汇“final cause”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

final cause

noun Philosophy

The purpose or aim of an action or the end towards which a thing naturally develops.Particularly at issue in the exegesis of Darwin's text was whether he considered natural selection to be an efficient cause, a final cause, a result of other causes, or a simple description of the working of several independent factors....

It cannot be the final cause since a final cause perfects a thing, but does not establish it in being, which is what the agent intellect does for the soul.
The four aspects are the formal cause, the material cause, the efficient cause, and the final cause.

单词	final cause
释义	final cause noun Philosophy The purpose or aim of an action or the end towards which a thing naturally develops.Particularly at issue in the exegesis of Darwin's text was whether he considered natural selection to be an efficient cause, a final cause, a result of other causes, or a simple description of the working of several independent factors.... It cannot be the final cause since a final cause perfects a thing, but does not establish it in being, which is what the agent intellect does for the soul. The four aspects are the formal cause, the material cause, the efficient cause, and the final cause.
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