Closereads: Aristotle on Final Causes

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Sign up for Closereads at patreon.com/closereadsphilosophy to get previous and future installments of this podcast. On Aristotle's Physics, book 2, ch. 8 on "final causation," i.e. purposiveness as a natural explanation. Modern science doesn't much like this kind of explanation, but Aristotle found it essential, and here's his argument for it. The post Closereads: Aristotle on Final Causes first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.

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