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Causa Materialis Causa Finalis

This document contains a student's activity submission that analyzes the four causes - material, formal, final, and efficient - as applied to a single object. The student identifies the material cause as silver for a chalice, the formal cause as the chalice's shape, the final cause as the human significance and rites the chalice will be part of, and the efficient cause as the silversmith who made the chalice. The student then provides a brief explanation of each cause.

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Causa Materialis Causa Finalis

This document contains a student's activity submission that analyzes the four causes - material, formal, final, and efficient - as applied to a single object. The student identifies the material cause as silver for a chalice, the formal cause as the chalice's shape, the final cause as the human significance and rites the chalice will be part of, and the efficient cause as the silversmith who made the chalice. The student then provides a brief explanation of each cause.

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Name: Mazo, Moira Chiyomi V.

Course, Year, and Section: BAPR 1-3D

Activity name and number: Activity 09: Human Flourishing in terms of Science and Technology (Lesson 1)

Identify a single object/thing which you can use to further illustrate the four causes as

stated by Martin Heidegger.

What is its:

a. Causa Materialis

b. Causa Formalis

c. Causa Finalis

d. Causa Efficience

CAUSA MATERIALIS CAUSA FINALIS

CAUSA FORMALIS CAUSA EFFICIENCE


A. Causa materialis

a material cause is determined by the matter that composes the changing things. For a
table, that matter might be wood and for a statue, it might be bronze or marble.
B. Causa formalis

a formal cause is due to the arrangement, shape, or appearance of the thing changing.
Numerical relationships are of this nature.
C. Causa Finalisis

a final cause is that for the sake of which a thing is changing. A seed's end is an adult plant.
A sailboat's purpose is sailing. A ball at the top of a ramp will finally come to rest at the
bottom.
D. Causa Efficience

an efficient cause consists of things apart from the thing being changed, which interact so as
to be an agency of the change. For example, the efficient cause of a table is a carpenter
acting on wood. According to Aristotle, the efficient cause of a child is a father.

EXPLAIN EACH CAUSA


A.Causa Materialis
 The material or matter. this refers to the material used to make an object, so this would be silver in the
case of the chalice.
B.Causa Formalis
 The causa formalis is the "formal cause" in the traditional model of causality--the form of the chalice in
the example of the chalice. Heidegger contrasts this concept with the Greek eidos.
 Is the shape that the material is formed into.
C.Causa Finalisis
 The causa finalis is the "final cause" or "purpose" in the traditional model of causality; and this relates
to what the end purpose of the object will be, so this will be bound up with the rites that the chalice
will form part of; in other words, the human significance of its making. Heidegger contrasts this
concept with the Greek telos.
D.Causa Efficience
 Causa efficiens refers to the "efficient cause" in the traditional model of causality, so this would appear
to be the silversmith in the example of the chalice. Heidegger argues that Greek philosophy had no
such category, focusing instead upon logos, with its roots in apophainesthai, "to bring forward into
appearance."

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