How does Catholic and medieval philosophy justify there being final causes to actions?

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Anonymous Sat Jun 13 05:42:49 2015 No.6682677 [Reply] [Original]

How does Catholic and medieval philosophy justify there being final causes to actions?

Anonymous Sat Jun 13 11:12:39 2015 No.6683623

Actions involve change, changes involve causes. Efficient causes are efficient causes insofar as they bring about some effect; particular kinds of efficient causes are divided a their natures are ordered toward different effects. To be an efficient cause, then, is to act for an end: But in order to act for an end, there must be an end. Those ends are final causes.

Anonymous Sat Jun 13 18:00:25 2015 No.6684810

>>6682677
i'm not exactly sure but I assume that an efficient cause is, by definition, a cause that acts for an end. So then you have to justify the existence of these efficient causes.

Else, efficient causes could be accidental causes that have no end, only an effect.

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