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Resentment, for example, is an implanted instinct, of which the 'final cause' is to defend us against 'sudden violence.'
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The second head to which the passions are referred with relation to their final cause, is society.
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The division of four causes also is not amiss: matter, form, the efficient, and end or final cause.
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The final cause of creation must be God, just as necessarily as its first cause must be God.
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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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