Models of Finality: Aristotle, Buridan, and Averroes

Åkerlund, Erik (2023) Models of Finality: Aristotle, Buridan, and Averroes. MAGYAR FILOZÓFIAI SZEMLE, 67 (2). pp. 67-85. ISSN 0025-0090

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Abstract

The treatment of the notion of finality has been a task ripe with pitfalls for historians of philosophy. Much criticism of the notions of final cause and final causation of earlier thinkers has been a criticism of a more contemporary conception of finality rather than a criticism of the notion as found in these earlier thinkers themselves. More specifically, much criticism of Aristotle’s conception of the final cause is a critique of what later philosophers have read into the conception of finality rather than what Aristotle himself wrote about it and how he understood it.

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