Not exact matches
At one time the Catholic natural law philosophy of Thomas Aquinas and his followers dominated European thinking, but its metaphysical foundations were undermined as science replaced Aristotelian teleology and Catholic theology
with a materialist worldview that considers only
efficient causes.
In either case the mind is faced
with a conundrum: an endless regress without possibility of finding a First
Efficient Cause, or ultimate reason, on the one hand, or an absolutebeginning without necessity, on the other.
When the scarcity of petroleum
causes its price to rise, the market will respond by more
efficient use and
with substitute sources.
Or is anything in nature that seems to act as an
efficient cause only carrying out the causality of God,
with no agency of its own?
Whereas science deals mainly in
efficient and material
causes, religion deals mainly
with formal and final
causes.
Some argue that this is the fault of modern science, which restricted its attention to a limited range of questions having to do
with the merely quantitative aspects of things and
with efficient and material
causes at the expense of formal and final
causes.
«15 We suggest that this ambiguity is
caused by the failure to develop the notion of God as creative power, and to relate more coherently this notion
with the concepts of objective immortality and
efficient causation.
The past operates on the present
with the force of necessity as
efficient cause.
Efficient cause remains
with us in the theory of agency, energy, motion.
God becomes the ultimate
efficient cause, the primary
cause of things, separate from the world
with all of its secondary causal processes.
Modern science does not point to a reductive approach to nature, limited to material and
efficient causes, but to a more holistic picture, in which science itself is seamlessly connected
with the purpose of the universe, its plan and direction.
Neither excluding a priori
with positivists anything more than the material and
efficient causes, nor making philosophy, as the «science of common experience,» superior to science, as Schönborn would have it, is a valid description of the world.
While I hesitate to identify the biblical Creator - God simply
with efficient, formal or final
cause of the universe, I do think that there is some validity in employing the category of causation analogously when we try to express the way in which God influences nature.
Fourth, occasional intervention
with coercive
efficient causation to counteract excess evil is not as equitable to all occasions in the world as the constant intervention in every occasion
with final
cause tending to overcome evil.
For the categories to be illustrated
with each new divine feeling, there must obviously be those
efficient causes (or there must have been others in place of them) to provide the content for the new creative synthesis; that all preceding
efficient causes, divine and subdivine, will always have been required to provide that content will be argued below.
Whitehead contrasts «deterministic
efficient causation»
with persuasive spontaneity that occurs in final
cause (PR 374, cf. 75).
Human introspection is hardly capable of identifying all the
efficient causes of a past feeling, let alone weighing the power of each relative to each other and to that feeling's final causality; God in turn would seem to have no impartial information or standards by which to conduct such comparative weighings
with perfect precision.
Insofar as the given entities thus function as efficacious
causes, prehension is identical
with the process of
efficient causality described by [249] Aristotle — in Scholastic terms,
with moveri ab alio.
Actually, the real problem
with empiricism is it is does not tell me anything I Really need to know since it can say nothing to «final» or «
efficient»
causes (it may or may not claim to do so).
To speak in Aristotelian language, the
efficient, material, formal and final
causes of the theological school are identical
with those of the Church.
If you side
with Francis Bacon and concentrate on the
efficient causes, you can interpret large features of the growth of structure in terms of «strife.»
You make some very good points and most i agree
with... however, i have a couple points... 1) the invisibles were
efficient, like Chelsea now they only need two / three players and a couple of top passes to score, they caught teams on the break, against the top teams arsenal cant do that, to many passes
cause the counter to fail and then the hole team wants to get in on the act leaving the goal exposed..
The book does not mention that supplementing
with formula can
cause a mother's milk supply to diminish and that pumping isn't as
efficient for milk - removal as putting the baby to breast.
Professional arborists can work
with and for you to ensure the affected tree is removed in an
efficient and safe manner that won't
cause any damage.
It presents you
with a safe,
efficient, and natural way to kill up to 99.9 percent of bacteria and any other disease -
causing microorganisms on baby feeding accessories.
Concerns about global warming and oil's imminent demise have
caused scientists and policy - makers to look for solutions in both the future and the past: to new technologies such as nuclear fusion, multijunction photovoltaics, and fuel cells — and to traditional energy sources such as water power, wind power, and (sustainable) biomass cultivation (coupled
with clean and energy -
efficient combustion).
Replacing old coal - fired power plants
with new natural gas plants could
cause climate damage to increase over the next decades, unless their methane leakage rates are very low and the new power plants are very
efficient.
Going into midlife
with a sedentary lifestyle
causes the heart to stiffen, shrink, and become less
efficient at pumping blood and oxygenating the body.
With few students of the same age and with child labor on farms causing irregular attendance, the efficient arrangement was to group students by ability rather than
With few students of the same age and
with child labor on farms causing irregular attendance, the efficient arrangement was to group students by ability rather than
with child labor on farms
causing irregular attendance, the
efficient arrangement was to group students by ability rather than age.
We are able to deliver a faster, more
efficient and more cost - effective support service by providing remote support to resolve issues that can be dealt
with over the internet, and to support your in - house IT team
with advice and guidance on how to resolve the root
cause of issues.
The city has allocated $ 708 million from its capital budget to replace the old lights — which could contain the potentially cancer -
causing toxins — in 772 schools
with more energy -
efficient fixtures.
To be honest, I, too, have on occasion found comfort in such facile explanations for the nation's abject failure to deal
with so many glaring problems, including several of interest to readers of car magazines: the pervasive failure to address global warming and finite supplies of fossil fuels; tens of thousands of road fatalities year in and year out; the burgeoning safety risk
caused by in - car communications and telematics; the failure to maintain the roads we've got while creating better ones and
efficient alternatives; and, of course, our continued inability to buy new Peugeots in the United States.
Braking and Handling: The automaker has incorporated it
with an
efficient suspension system that enables it to remain stable at all times, while dealing
with jerks
caused on uneven roads.
Thin, lightweight, energy -
efficient eReaders
with easy - to - read, paper - like displays have won over consumers, who are snapping up ePaper devices in unprecedented numbers,
causing the market to surge.
You get to be made whole in an
efficient manner, and you're not burdened
with trying to collect from the negligent party that
caused the loss to occur.
Then I became familiar
with a phrase called
Efficient Market Hypothesis which is an investment theory that states that it's impossible to beat the market because stock market efficiency
causes existing share prices to incorporate and include all relevant information.
Many of us are afraid to write about issue that matters most because it is scary to contemplate how much financial misery we have
caused with our tolerance of the widespread promotion of Buy - and - Hold strategies (it is the Buy - and - Hold Model — rooted in the long - discredited belief that markets are
efficient — that is responsible for studies that fail to take valuations into consideration when identifying safe withdrawal rates).
The project activity is the introduction of an alternative ignition technique for domestic coal fires that
causes households to switch from a less
efficient ignition technique
with significant greenhouse gas emissions to a technique that results in considerably less emissions.
Undefined stops
cause traffic disorder, and this would guarantee a better fluid of passengers and more
efficient service,
with corresponding decrease of the number of public vehicles needed.
Research proves that buildings in sprawling locations
cause far more carbon emissions from employees and visitors driving to and from them than they save
with energy -
efficient building technology.
So what is the answer: how can the legal aid system be reformed to keep delivering quality services to the public but in the most
efficient way and, importantly,
with reason - able and sustainable rates of remuneration for service providers to ensure that they do not leave,
causing it to decline to be a second tier public service?
You get to be made whole in an
efficient manner, and you're not burdened
with trying to collect from the negligent party that
caused the loss to occur.
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Substantially synonymous
with «
efficient cause.»
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