Rethinking the validity and significance of final causation: From the Aristotelian to the Peircean teleology

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  Wang, Henry ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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3. T.L. Short, "Teleology in Nature," American Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 20, No.4, Oct. 1983, p.311
4. Aristotle, Physics, II, 3, 195a 3
5. Cf. Ross interprets this distinction as a difference between the final cause in art and the final cause in nature. See W.D. Ross, Aristotle (London, Methuen & Co., 1949), p. 74
6. Cf. Ayala, F.J., "Teleological Explanations in Evolutionary Biology," Philosophy of Science Vol. 37, 1970, p. 11
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8. See Aristotle, De. Anima, II, 412a 9: "Now matter is potentiality, form actuality."
9. Quoted in W.K.C. Guthrie, Aristotle An Encounter: A History of Greek Philosophy, VI (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981), p. 124
10. Granted, these two senses of were maintained in medieval philosophers, for example in Thomas Aquinas, as passive potency and active potency. But the emphasis on the meaning of passive potency was so great that the meaning of active potency became eclipsed and later forgotten. See Aquinas, Commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle Vol 2 Bk 9 Lsn 1 Sct 1777
11. cf. An Introduction to the Metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas, trans. James F. Anderson (Chicago, Henry Regnery Company, 1953), p. 30
12. Cf. Heidegger, "On the Essence and Concept of" in Pathmarks, ed. William McNeill (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 216ff
13. For the coincidence of final, formal and efficient causation, see Aristode, Physics, II, 7, 198a 22 - 198b 9
14. Cf. Joseph Owens, C.Ss.R., Being and Natures in Aquinas, Modern Schoolman, MR 84, 61, p. 159: "no basis in his [Aristotle's] thought was brought forward for real distinction of being from quiddity. For the Stagirite 'one man and being a man and a man are the same.'"
15. Cf. Aristotle, Physics, II, 1 , 192b 10ff
16. Cf. Aristotle, Metaphysics, IX, 8, 1049b5ff
17. Isaac Newton, The Principia, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, trans. I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman (Berkley: University of California Press, 1999), p. 416
18. Helmut Pape, "Final Causality in Peirce's Semiotics and His Classification of the Sciences," Transactions of Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. XXIX, No. 4, fall 1993, p. 589
19. See Christopher Hookway, Peirce (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985), p 240. Cf. 5.481-3
20. Andrew Reynolds, Peirce's Scientific Metaphysics: The Philosophy of Chance, Law, and Evolution (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2002), p. 142
21. Hulswit, "Teleology: A Peircean Critique of Ernst Mayr's Theory," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Spring, 1996, Vol. XXXII, No.2, p. 197
22. Christopher Hookway, Peirce, p. 265
23. Otfried Höffe, Immanuel Kant, trans. Marshall Farrier (Albany, State University of New York Press, 1994), p. 133
24. For an introductory account of this hidden dimension of Aristotle's thinking in connection with the concept of and, see Heidegger, "The Question Concerning Technology," in Basic Writings, ed. David Farrell Krell (New York: Harper & Row, 1977), p. 289-294
25. "On the Essence and Concept of" Pathmarks, p. 183-230