Creativity and Proximate Causality

Though Spinoza does not use the term in the context, his propositions in the Ethics regarding the movement of one Body by an external Body plainly instantiate Efficient Causality.  In contrast, in the Improvement of the Understanding, he does specify a type of Causality, but it is none of the traditional four.  Rather, it is what he calls "proximate causality", and his characterization of it suggests that it reduces to none of the four.  For, it is what causes a "created" thing, i. e. what produces it, which exceeds merely moving it, e. g. the drawing of a Circle.  So, even if he does not mention the term in the Ethics, the Causality of all Human creativity is Proximate.