FINAL CAUSE; COMMENTARY

FINAL CAUSE; COMMENTARY

Metaphysics

2^nd Year- Philosophy Department

Joshua Caesar O. Elegado

Final cause has given us an understanding not only in the context of metaphysics, but also in ethics and or human actions. In the nature of the final cause, we understood that the end is basically the thriving force by which an agent acts in a level to begin with. Without the end in one’s mind, therefore, no acts are to be done in the very first place, therefore, it must be understood that the end is the first of all causes to begin with. Final cause is said that is to attract something that is good, given that nature that is which all beings acts towards that are good and therefore able to forward or resonate good to others and is contagious. Like one good can attracts good, and that composition creates an end that makes a potentiality of goodness to a perfection. It seems to be in a natural order, a mechanized compatibility, that from something good, it creates goodness and reciprocal.

Human desire plays a role in us humans that distinct us from non-human animals. When we are talking about desire, we are engaging in a context to where knowledge, reason, and freedom are somewhat elements to which makes human a human. This context that was given can actually be moved primarily with desire being an influence to do such. For instance, a human person desires water because he/she is thirsty and is in need of water, and another perspective is that, he/she desires the water because he/she wanted it. These instances are to be determined whether or not a certain desire a need or but a want. The giving of meaning to an end is to be given a basis that we are to find out in this paper. The main premise was that of a telos or ends that which the final cause was based, that is to have an understanding of a certain being on its purpose of its very existence. Take a simple weather of a rain for example, as it gives nourish the plants by watering it down as the plants needed in order to grow, this for instance is the natural purpose of a rain that is to give supplementary benefits to the plants it poured down to begin with. But what if we put it in the context of a human person? It turns out to be that it is to be our desire that is to describe a certain purpose of such thing. Taking desire on the negative context, a knife is made to cut fruits turns out and can fit into a murder weapon because the one who possesses such has a desire to purposely kill someone, eliminating the principle of the good. To understand the meaning of the final cause or the purpose, it is to be anchored in the context of ethics, to where a purpose must be good and not of an evil to begin with. The final cause has given us understanding to when evil instances are succumbed to, it tells us that the evil instances are actually part of a purpose of human being, however it is outside of the context to where goodness, but is actually happens to be contrary to the principle of goodness, and therefore evil and does not attract. Creatures which lack knowledge cannot direct themselves towards their end, they must be directed towards it by some higher intelligence. This happens to be that, there must be higher intelligence to guide the ones who are lacking, therefore, we must consider that in anyway, in everything, there is always a higher than us, God is the only one who is perfect, and who must succumb to God’s guiding principle that is to help us gain what lacks us.