Teleology and Emanation

1. As has been previously discussed, Aristotle privileges Teleological Causality in two respects.  First, in a modest practical context he conceives Purpose to be the primary determining factor.  But second, in Ethics and Metaphysics, he conceives the Telos of human development, either Theoretical Virtue, or Practical Virtue, between which he vacillates, as has been previously discussed, to be goal of human behavior.  Accordingly, there has been a double repudiation of Teleological Causality in the Modern Era.  First, in Locomotion, Teleological Causality has been replaced in Newtonian Physics by Efficient Causality.  But second, because of the severing of the Earth-Heavens contiguity, by Heliocentrism, so, too, is the severing of the Human-Celestial contiguity that grounds Ethical Teleological Causality, resulting in, for example, a Emanation doctrine of Spinoza the primary principle of which is its initial moment, not its final one.