Buridan's Radical View of Final Causality and Its Influence
In his commentary on Aristotle's Physics, John Buridan (c. 1300-1361) presents his well-known rejection of final causality. The main problem he sees with it is that it requires the cause to exist before the effect. Despite this, he retains the terminology of ends. This has led to some difficult...
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Philosophy Documentation Center
2023
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American catholic philosophical quarterly
Year: 2023, Volume: 97, Issue: 2, Pages: 211-226 |
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