The term "final causes" refers to the purpose or end goal of something. In philosophical discourse, it is commonly associated with teleology, the study of final causes in natural and social systems. There are several antonyms for final causes, which include proximate causes, efficient causes, material causes, and formal causes. Proximate causes refer to immediate factors that lead to a particular outcome, while efficient causes are the mechanisms or processes that bring about that outcome. Material causes relate to the physical components or substances involved in the phenomenon, and formal causes refer to the design or structure that make something recognizable as what it is. Together, these antonyms provide a more comprehensive understanding of causality and the workings of the world around us.

What are the antonyms for Final causes?

• n.

  • sake
  • beginning
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  • commencement
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  • detriment
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  • disadvantage
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  • origin
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  • start
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Famous quotes with Final causes

• The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

  Joseph Butler
• A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

  Alexander Pope
• Aristotle feels this so strongly with reference to Plato's external, as contrasted with his own immanent, teleology that, forgetting his own concession elsewhere, he once roundly asserts that the final cause is 'not touched by the Ideas'. Again, what is the relation of the Idea of the Good to other ends (Ideas) or to the special functions of things? Efficient causes Plato attributes at one time to Idea, at another to soul: which is his real doctrine? and what is the relation of Idea to soul? Aristotle, therefore, while willing to admit that Plato made 'stammering' efforts in the direction of efficient and final causes, was perfectly justified in thinking that he had not 'fully worked them out'.

  Plato
• A god without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature.

  Alexander Pope
• As we divided natural philosophy in general into the inquiry of causes, and productions of effects: so that part which concerneth the inquiry of causes we do subdivide according to the received and sound division of causes. The one part, which is physic, inquireth and handleth the material and efficient causes; and the other, which is metaphysic, handleth the formal and final causes.

  Francis Bacon

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