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Single Idea 14865

[filed under theme 26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 3. Final causes ]

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Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1872-74 [1873], 19 [121])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Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Unpublished of 'Unfashionable Obs' period (v 11)', ed/tr.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

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The 5 ideas with the same theme [Greek view of ultimate aim as the cause]:

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]