(October 16, 2021 at 3:07 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I do tend to say final cause when speaking of the final cause in a causal chain a lot, yeah.
I offered my thoughts and questions on thomist final causes a bit back, if you wanted to answer those…(or the ones I just asked that you ostensibly were responding to). I guess you could just call me an ignorant shot lord again, too.
Yeah, that's what got me a bit confused earlier on... trying to work out what you meant by a plurality of final causes, whether you meant the final cause of every element in the series or whatever. Took me a while to realise you weren't using it in that sense, and therefore to get what you were saying. Shows what happens when you start thinking in these terms more and more, which I have been doing thanks to this new interest in classical philosophy. But also shows how perfectly understandable it is not to be thinking in these terms all the time - if you've not got Aristotle on the brain all the time, which I doubt you do. So yeah, I too hope this thread doesn't just descend into condescending oneupmanship, especially over something as petty as that.
