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Happy are Those who Know the Causes of Things: Recovering Aristotle’s Four Causes
When teaching middle school, I often had reason to doubt Aristotle’s maxim, “all men by nature desire knowledge.” Generally, however, we do long to know things. Aristotle also claimed that to know a thing, we must identify its causes. In providing for the knowledge of a thing, Aristotle identified four causes. However, modern science only recognizes two of these and has thus impoverished our approach to the world. In order to fully grasp all tha…
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