{"product_id":"aristotles-four-causes-9781433159299","title":"Aristotles Four Causes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines Aristotle's four causes (material, formal, efficient, and final), offering a systematic discussion of the relation between form and matter, causation, taxonomy, and teleology. The overall aim is to show that the four causes form a system, so that the form of a natural thing relates to its matter as the final cause of a natural process relates to its efficient cause. \u003ci\u003eAristotle's Four Causes\u003c\/i\u003e reaches two novel and distinctive conclusions. The first is that the formal cause or essence of a natural thing is not a property of this thing but a generic natural thing. The second is that the final cause of a process is not its purpose but the course that processes of its kind typically take.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements – Introduction – Aristotle’s Four Causes – Two Epistemic Directions of Fit – \u003ci\u003eTode, Ti, Toionde – \u003c\/i\u003eThe Inseparability of Matter – Types and Classes – Essences vs. Properties – Causation – Causal Processes – Basic and Derived Final Causes – Teleological Reasoning – Conclusion – Bibliography – Index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039640420695,"sku":"9781433159299","price":91.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433159299.jpg?v=1750944348","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aristotles-four-causes-9781433159299","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}