046 - The Four Causes (of Everything)
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046 - The Four Causes (of Everything)
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Aristotle argued that we don't fully know a thing until we grasp its "why" (its causes). He identified 4 specific causes that we need to understand: The Material Cause (what something is made of0, the Formal Cause (What something is made for), the Efficient Cause (how something was made) and the Final Cause (what the ultimate purpose of the thing is)
St. Thomas Aquinas applied this same framework to theology and came to profound conclusions about God and the nature of humanity. These Thomistic conclusions appear throughout the Catholic Catechism.
Postmodernism only accepts the Material and Efficient causes ... and Dr Bickford argues that this is why we now have a "Crisis of Meaning" in our culture.
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