Aristotle’s Four Causes and the Growth of Explanation — Part I

Aristotle, Statue and Tree:  Today, almost twenty-four centuries after, it is really amazing to know how the ancient physicists  and philosophers thought about the causal-connectedness of things happening in nature in such a  systematic and structured manner!   The pre-eminent example is the Aristotelian framework of causality. According to Aristotle, the  causes behind the occurrence of […]