Four causes#Final cause

Causa finalis is the Latin term for the Aristotelian final cause (also final cause or final cause ). In a final cause, the cause of an event is interpreted as a scheduled purpose.

Instead of an event after the causal principle to interpret, that is, before you go teleological. There are determined the causes of situations from their goal or benefit. In an action, however, the final cause is the reason why the action was executed. In fateful experience ( Wilhelm Kamlah ), i.e., an uncontrollable event, the search fails after a final cause.

Aristotle distinguished between efficient cause and final cause, to distinguish causal processes of nature and practically justifiable actions.

We interpret even for people manipulable natural events on the basis of final causes, so a divine plan of salvation is theologically assumed in the rule. The history of salvation then finds its target in an eschatology.

According to Aristotle, there are four causes. The remaining three ( complementary ) causes are:

• Material cause ( material cause)
• Causa formalis ( formal cause )
• Efficient cause ( efficient cause )

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