Sentences with phrase «ultimate efficient cause»

On the one hand, the divine activity is the ultimate grounding for events; it provides the ultimate efficient cause which turns mere possibility into sheer actuality.

In that tradition, instead of thinking of God as a persuasive power who acts as a kind of lure toward which things move, which was Aristotle's conception, Aquinas and others adopted the understanding that God creates by being the ultimate efficient cause for the world.

God becomes the ultimate efficient cause, the primary cause of things, separate from the world with all of its secondary causal processes.

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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.

Efficient causes — the sculptor who transforms a block of marble into a statue of Athena — exist as separate from God but since they are contingent, they too require God as their ultimate cause.