Efficient Causality: The Metaphysics of Production

2015 ◽  
pp. 85-121 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Efficient Causality

The project on formulating axioms of efficient causality by means of the prepositional variables calculus

1970 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-168
Author(s):  
Jan Dorda
Keyword(s):  
Complete Theory ◽  
Logical Operators ◽  
Efficient Causality ◽  
The Moment

The simplest axioms, formulated by medieval scholastics as rules of inference between potency and act, are also axioms concerning causality as they express some potency-act relations. These are: Ab esse ad posse valet illatio. A non posse ad non esse valet illatio. A posse ad esse non valet illatio. A non esse ad non posse non valet illatio. The project on formulating axioms of efficient causality by means of the prepositional variables calculus does not mean of course that we try to create a complete theory of causality. We will, for the moment show that the quantification of the concepts „potency-act" by means of the concepts „set-element" or „parameter-specific numerical value" is very useful. We will also point out, intuitively, as an experiment, the logical operators which are linked very closely with such concepts as implication, potentiality (i.e. variability), act, set, specific numeric value.

Efficient Causality: A Reply and a Comment

1946 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-57
Author(s):  
Francis X. Meehan ◽  
Charles Hartshorne
Keyword(s):  
Efficient Causality

Dispositive Causality and the Art of Medicine

2017 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 159-170
Author(s):  
Chad Engelland ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Art Of Medicine ◽  
Efficient Causality ◽  
Human Power ◽  
Natural Power

For many philosophers, the relation of medicine to health is exemplary for understanding the relation of human power to nature in general. Drawing on Heidegger and Aquinas, this paper examines the relation of art to nature as it emerges in the second book of Aristotle’s Physics, and it does so by articulating the duality of efficient causality. The art of medicine operates as a dispositive cause rather than as a perfective cause; it removes obstacles to the achievement of health, but it does not impose health. Medicine, on this conception, aids the efficient causality of the natural body rather than substituting for it. The loss of dispositive causality makes efficient causality an imposition of force that bypasses the natural power to achieve natural goods. The paper concludes, with Plato, by arguing that dispositive causality offers a way to understand not only medicine but also governing, teaching, and parenting.

Efficient causality-tracking timestamping

2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 1239-1250 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Helary ◽  
M. Raynal ◽  
G. Melideo ◽  
R. Baldoni
Keyword(s):  
Efficient Causality

scholarly journals Efficient Causality in Aristotle and St. Thomas.

1943 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
E. A. M. ◽  
Francis X. Meehan
Keyword(s):  
Efficient Causality

On Efficient Causality: Metaphysical Disputations 17, 18, and 19.

1996 ◽  
Vol 105 (4) ◽  
pp. 533
Author(s):  
Robert Pasnau ◽  
Francisco Suarez ◽  
Alfred J. Freddoso
Keyword(s):  
Efficient Causality

The Structure of a Concrescence

1997 ◽  
pp. 107-134
Author(s):  
Elizabeth M. Kraus
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Analysis ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Space Time ◽  
The Self ◽  
Efficient Causality ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Spatio Temporal

This chapter analyzes Part III of Process and Reality. It begins with a discussion of the nature of genetic analysis and states that in genetic analysis, the self-creative process of the subject is traced as it grows from phase to phase. Coordinate analysis, focusing on the fully determinate satisfaction achieved in concrescence, takes as its object the spatio-temporal standpoint in the extensive continuum which the entity has actualized. The former mode divides an occasion into prehensions, underscoring its final causality; the latter mode yields space–time regions through which chains of efficient causality are propagated. The reminder of the chapter explains the nature of feelings in general, primary feelings, propositions and feelings, and comparative feelings.

Early Stoic Determinism

2021 ◽  
pp. 217-252
Author(s):  
Susanne Bobzien
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Explanation ◽  
Active Principle ◽  
Causal Determinism ◽  
Efficient Causality ◽  
The World ◽  
Efficient Causation ◽  
Science And Theology ◽  
Mechanical Elements

This chapter pursues the question how teleological elements and efficient causation were merged in early Stoic cosmology. Stoic determinism is originally introduced in teleological terms, built on a distinction between a global and an inner-worldly perspective on events, in which Nature is the global active principle that determines all inner-worldly events. Additionally, Chrysippus’ efficient causality connects inner-worldly causes and their effects and is used to construct a contemporary-style universal causal determinism. The teleological and seemingly mechanical elements are combined in the early Stoic concept of fate (heimarmenē). The Stoics present details of this combination in biological and psychological analogies. It emerges that the early Stoic theories of Nature as world seed and world soul and world agent offer a fascinating solution to the question how science and theology, in particular predetermination, can be joined consistently within cosmology: theological and scientific explanation of the world are two complementary explanations of the same thing.

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