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Beyond the Four Species of Causes: Aristotle And Aquinason the Complexity of Causal Relationships and the Variety of Modes of Causation

Pubblicazione Estate 2023

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  • Tabaczek Mariusz

Aristotle’s and Aquinas’s metaphysical reflection on causation goes far be¬yond enumerating four causes of change and stability of things. They both develop a sophisticated and intriguing analysis of the complexity of causal dependencies and the variety of modes of causation. This aspect of the Ari¬stotelian-Thomistic metaphysics is often lost in the contemporary cursory presentations of this tradition. The article goes back to the robust ancient and medieval notions of causation and causal situations, indicating some exemplary points of correspondence between the classical and the contem¬porary (analytic and scientifically informed) philosophy of causation.