| • Formal cause
- account of what-is-to-be
• Final cause – something for which a thing
is done
• Material cause – the original things out
of which other things come to be
• Efficient cause - that by which change is produced
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To grant a simple example, of a man wishes to make
a house; he can consider the material cause - building
materials similar to cement, bricks as well as tiles.
He can imagine the house in his mind, how it may be
made with how it may look- this can be think the formal
cause which is an account of what is to be. Then comes
the well-organized cause through which the man becomes
the primary source of change of the building materials.
The final cause is characterized by the aim of building
the house itself in which the man will live etc.
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