{"product_id":"aristotles-four-causes-9781433159299","title":"Aristotle's Four Causes","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Boris Hennig\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Epistemology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines Aristotle's four causes (material, formal, efficient, and final), offering a systematic discussion of the relation between form and matter, causation, taxonomy, and teleology. The overall aim is to show that the four causes form a system, so that the form of a natural thing relates to its matter as the final cause of a natural process relates to its efficient cause. \u003ci\u003eAristotle's Four Causes\u003c\/i\u003e reaches two novel and distinctive conclusions. The first is that the formal cause or essence of a natural thing is not a property of this thing but a generic natural thing. The second is that the final cause of a process is not its purpose but the course that processes of its kind typically take.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46480241361047,"sku":"9781433159299","price":11313.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781433159299.jpg?v=1766308242","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/aristotles-four-causes-9781433159299","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}