Saturday, December 29, 2018

Four Causes and Transformal Causality

Ancient Philosophy is dominated by Teleological Causality, and Modern Philosophy, by Efficient Causality. Dialectical Materialism, despite a linguistic kinship with Material Causality, seems comparable to Chemical interaction, which is reducible to Efficient Causality.  Regardless, both Aristotle and Kant attribute Formal Causality to Mind, but without recognizing the implied relegation of the Teleological and Efficient varieties, respectively, e. g. Pure Practical Reason plainly consists in the Formal Causality of Reason overpowering the Efficient Causality of the Inclinations, in Kant's doctrine.  Still, not even Formal Causality, as they conceive it, seems adequate to the fundamental Causality of Evolution, i. e. Adaptation-Of, e. g. the modification of a patch of land that yields vegetables.  Instead, as has been previously discussed, Transformal Causality accounts for that Evolutionist dynamic, as well as that of Economics, i. e. manufacturing.

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