Posted on 10/30/2010 10:50:05 AM PDT by Salvation
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The end or purpose that an intelligent being has in performing an action or producing an effect. Strictly speaking, only created beings can have a final cause in what they do. God cannot properly be motivated by any cause, as though he were in any way changed or modified by his actions. Yet he does act for a purpose, which is really his own infinite goodness and identified with the divine essence.
See Also: CAUSE,
See Also: EFFICIENT CAUSE,
See Also: FIRST CAUSE,
See Also: FORMAL CAUSE,
See Also: FREE CAUSE,
See Also: MATERIAL CAUSE,
See Also: MORAL CAUSE,
See Also: NECESSARY CAUSE,
See Also: SECONDARY CAUSE
A principle from which something originates with consequent dependence. It is a being that in some way directly affects the being or change of something else. It is that which gives existence in some way to another or is the reason for the existence of another being.
An agent in the production of any effect. It is that which, by its activity or exercise of power, produces existence or change in another.
God as the first cause of all things, because he is the first in the series of all other causes. Also, God as immediately operating in all finite causality, as the underlying cause on which all other causes constantly depend for their
The specific element in a being which communicates itself to the indeterminate or less determinate element and together with this matter or substratum constitutes the whole being. One of the four principal causes in Thomistic philosophy.
That out of which something is produced or made. The passive element in any change, which is united with the active element to form one physical being. The substratum in every change that itself remains unchanged.
An agent acting from knowledge and with deliberate purpose, as distinct from a necessary cause.
A free cause as distinguished from a necessary one. The opposite of a physical cause. One that acts as a motive for the performance of a free action or serves as an occasion that favors the action of a free cause.
An agent that acts according to compulsory tendencies of its nature, and not freely or from conscious intent. It is a naturally determined agent that cannot not act the way it does.
A created cause that is totally dependent on the First Cause, who is God. It is a cause that can produce a certain kind of effect but cannot produce the being or existence of the effect.
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