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Full Idea
We do not know the nature of one single causality.
Gist of Idea
We do not know the nature of one single causality
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1872-74 [1873], 19 [121])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Unpublished of 'Unfashionable Obs' period (v 11)', ed/tr. Gray,Richard T. [Stanford 1995], p.41
8332 | The four causes are the material, the form, the source, and the end [Aristotle] |
4850 | A final cause is simply a human desire [Spinoza] |
5059 | Power rules in efficient causes, but wisdom rules in connecting them to final causes [Leibniz] |
4579 | The idea of a final cause is very uncertain and unphilosophical [Hume] |
14865 | We do not know the nature of one single causality [Nietzsche] |