Aristotle's Four Causes of Action.
Aristotle's typical procedure is to identify four causes of natural changes. Intentional action, a natural change, has standardly been treated as an exception: most think that Aristotle has the standard causalist account, according to which an intentional action is a bodily movement efficiently caus...
| Publicado en: | Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 97; no. 2; pp. 213 - 228 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
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