final cause

My mother's words might very well have captured this movement's final cause.

As he rather paradoxically put it, the final cause had to be first.

One in which "the human race was the point, the heart, the final cause of the whole system.

This fact may perhaps be one of the final causes why the body exists at all.

Next, David looked up the final causes of death.

An event's final cause is the aim or purpose being served by it.

The blue flame was the sole final cause of the destruction.

Final cause is the end, or goal, which guides one to take the necessary actions to obtain it.

To reject final causes from the study of nature would apparently leave providence hanging.

The final cause was determined to be poor workmanship and materials of the original build.

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

And you must also imagine a final cause.

It is manifest that the soul is also the final cause of its body.

The final cause is the aim towards which something is directed.

He could not accept that the goal or end of a process, the final cause, was the principal cause.

We may here, by another process, get at some of the final causes why this domain is just so large as it is.

The final cause, or telos, is the purpose of the thing.

(d) refers to the final cause, what a being's purpose is.

But not for Bacon, who spoke of final causes as barren virgins.

Try describing an organism and its parts without referring to functions, which is to say, final causes.

But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose.

The final cause was the aim, goal, or purpose of some natural process or man-made thing.

According to Aristotle, once a final cause is in place, the material, efficient and formal causes follow by necessity.

Most characteristic of Aristotle's causes is his final cause, the purpose for which a thing is made.

The final cause is never the responsible cause.