Disputationes Metaphysicae XXIII and XXIV
I am beginning to revise my translations of DM XXIII and XXIV with an eye towards publication, so more polished versions should gradually show up here. I would, of course, be especially grateful for any comments/criticisms about these translations.
- *XXIII.1 - Whether an end is a true real cause (html)
- *XXIII.2 - What kinds of ends there are (html)
- *XXIII.3 - What effects the final cause has
- XXIII.4 - What the nature of causing or the causality of the final cause is or consists in
- XXIII.5 - What the proximate nature of causing in the final end is
- *XXIII.6 - What things can exercise final causality
- XXIII.7 - Whether it is a necessary condition for the end to be cognized so that it can cause finally
- XXIII.8 - Whether the end moves according to its own real being or according to being cognized
- XXIII.9 - Whether causality of the end has a place in divine actions and effects
- *XXIII.10 - Whether true final causality intercedes in the actions of natural and irrational agents
- *XXIV - Concerning the ultimate final cause or the ultimate end (Whether it can be sufficiently shown by natural reason that some ultimate end is given and that a procession into infinity is not given in final causes; Whether an ultimate end per se and properly concurs with all proximate ends for causing finally and consequently whether all agents intend an ultimate end in all their actions). (html)
