The Four Causes and Proximate Causality

According to Aristotle, the falling of an object to the ground is an instance of Teleological Causality--of an object seeking its natural place.  According to Galileo, Newton, and subsequent Physics, the falling of an object to the ground is the resultant of the interaction of two forces, each Gravity.  So, in Modern Physics, the Ancient primacy of Teleological Causality is replaced by that of Efficient Causality.  Likewise, prominent Philosophical  study of Causality has focused on the relation between Efficient Causality and Teleological Causality.  For example, Kant assigns the former to world of Phenomena, and the latter to the Moral realm.  Similarly, but with different assignations, Whitehead integrates them into his concept of Process, with neither privileged.  Spinoza's concept of Proximate Causality is a simpler repudiation of the soundness of Teleological Causality--it denies the causal efficacy of an event that is subsequent to its purported effect.  Thus, Spinoza likely agrees with Dewey that what Aristotle classifies as a Teleological Cause in ordinary experience, i. e. the use of an object, is actually an 'end-in-view', which, as the cause of the making of the object, precedes that action.  So, Spinoza shares with other Philosophers a focus on the Efficient and the Teleological of Aristotle's Four Causes.  But unlike any of his peers, his concept of Proximate Causality also repudiates, as has been previously discussed, the Aristotelian Material Cause, thereby altering the relation between the Material Cause and the Formal Cause on grounds that are completely independent of the discovery of Gravity.  Rather, they reflect the rise of manufacturing processes that transform, and not merely shape, Matter.