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final cause

noun as in sake

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Resentment, for example, is an implanted instinct, of which the 'final cause' is to defend us against 'sudden violence.'

The second head to which the passions are referred with relation to their final cause, is society.

The division of four causes also is not amiss: matter, form, the efficient, and end or final cause.

The final cause of creation must be God, just as necessarily as its first cause must be God.

In it the creation returns to God as final cause, from whom it proceeds as first cause, in a mode which is metaphysically final.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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