Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Topics in Education

Titel: Topics in Education

Stichwort: Beispiel Kreis und die vier Ursachen

Kurzinhalt: If you examine a wheel, you can ask, 'Why is it round?'and then you are asking about its immanent intelligibility ...

Textausschnitt: ... If you examine a wheel, you can ask, 'Why is it round?'and then you are asking about its immanent intelligibility. You can ask, 'Who made it?' and 'What kind of tools did he use?' and then you are asking about the agent, the efficient cause. Or you can ask, 'What did he make it for?' and then you are asking about the final cause. You can ask, 'What did he make it out of?' and then you are asking about the material cause. But the formal cause is the immanent intelligibility, and that is what pure science is concerned with. It is applied science that is concerned with agent, end, and material. (143; Fs)