Formal Causality and Practice

Probably the most prominent recent example of Formal Causality is the Gestalt concept of Cognition, according to which the percipient structures the sensory manifold.  However, though Gestaltism is usually classified as 'Psychology', it has offered little application to behavior, leaving some passages from Nietzsche as among the few sources of examples of what might be constituted by a Practical Formal Causality, e. g. characterizations of a ruler as 'imposing Form' on a society.  Accordingly, also an artist can be conceived as imposing Form on material.  So, between these examples and an extrapolation of Cognitive Gestalism, Practical Formal Causality can be recognized as operative whenever an organism adapts something in its environment to its own processes, e. g. cutting up a piece of food so that it fits in their mouth.  Likewise, any organizing, e. g. of one's own activities, is accomplished by Practical Formal Causality.  So, even if Formal Causality is subordinated to Efficient or Teleological Causality, it cannot be reduced to them, i. e. neither of them can account for the shaping that is pervasive in human behavior.