The 4 causes are 4 different ways of answering the question *why* a natural thing is the way it is

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0:00 Intro
0:37 Key question for Aristotle: Why?
1:08 Material cause, that “out of which a thing comes to be”
1:36 Formal cause, the “definition of the essence”
2:25 Efficient cause, the “primary source of change or rest”
3:15 Final cause, “that for the sake of which something is done”
3:46 Most important = formal cause
4:06 Example: Why does a farmer farm?

Based on Aristotle's Physics, Book II, [ Ссылка ]

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