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final cause
noun
, Aristotelianism.
- cause8b
final cause
noun
- philosophy the end or purpose of a thing or process, as opposed to its efficient cause See cause
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Word History and Origins
Origin of final cause1
First recorded in 1350–1400
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Resentment, for example, is an implanted instinct, of which the 'final cause' is to defend us against 'sudden violence.'
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The second head to which the passions are referred with relation to their final cause, is society.
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The division of four causes also is not amiss: matter, form, the efficient, and end or final cause.
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The final cause of creation must be God, just as necessarily as its first cause must be God.
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In it the creation returns to God as final cause, from whom it proceeds as first cause, in a mode which is metaphysically final.
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