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Single Idea 275
[filed under theme 26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / a. Final purpose
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Full Idea
Creation is not for your benefit; you exist for the sake of the universe.
Gist of Idea
Creation is not for you; you exist for the sake of creation
Source
Plato (The Laws [c.349 BCE], 903c)
Book Ref
Plato: 'The Laws', ed/tr. Saunders,Trevor J [Penguin 1970], p.437
The
13 ideas
with the same theme
[nature is directed by a unified purpse]:
631
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For Anaxagoras the Good Mind has no opposite, and causes all movement, for a higher reason
[Anaxagoras, by Aristotle]
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5995
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Diogenes of Apollonia offered the first teleological account of cosmology
[Diogenes of Apollonia, by Robinson,TM]
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275
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Creation is not for you; you exist for the sake of creation
[Plato]
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394
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An unworn sandal is in vain, but nothing in nature is in vain
[Aristotle]
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396
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There has to be some goal, and not just movement to infinity
[Aristotle]
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626
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Everything is arranged around a single purpose
[Aristotle]
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5089
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Nature has purpose, and aims at what is better. Is it coincidence that crops grow when it rains?
[Aristotle]
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2809
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If nature makes everything for a purpose, then plants and animals must have been made for man
[Aristotle]
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20812
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Covers are for shields, and sheaths for swords; likewise, all in the cosmos is for some other thing
[Chrysippus]
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23349
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Asses are born to carry human burdens, not as ends in themselves
[Epictetus]
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2280
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Many causes are quite baffling, so it is absurd to deduce causes from final purposes
[Descartes]
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23040
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If something develops, its true nature is embodied in its end
[Green,TH]
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15963
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Science has been partly motivated by the belief that the universe is run by God's laws
[Alexander,P]
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