Book, Paragraph
1 I, 9 | which persists is a joint cause, with the form, of what
2 II, 1 | that nature is a source or cause of being moved and of being
3 II, 1 | in others those which may cause a change in themselves in
4 II, 3 | is to grasp its primary cause). So clearly we too must
5 II, 3 | which persists, is called "cause", e.g. the bronze of the
6 II, 3 | man who gave advice is a cause, the father is cause of
7 II, 3 | is a cause, the father is cause of the child, and generally
8 II, 3 | done, e.g. health is the cause of walking about. ("Why
9 II, 3 | think we have assigned the cause.) The same is true also
10 II, 3 | ways in which the term "cause" is used.~As the word has
11 II, 3 | the one being the material cause, the other the cause whence
12 II, 3 | material cause, the other the cause whence the motion comes.
13 II, 3 | motion comes. Some things cause each other reciprocally,
14 II, 3 | Further the same thing is the cause of contrary results. For
15 II, 3 | pilot whose presence was the cause of its safety.~All the causes
16 II, 3 | and nature of the kinds of cause.~Now the modes of causation
17 II, 3 | reduced in number. For "cause" is used in many senses
18 II, 3 | another "sculptor" is the cause of a statue, because "being
19 II, 3 | could be said to be the cause of a statue or, generally, "
20 II, 3 | man" were said to be the cause of the statue.~All causes,
21 II, 3 | potential or as actual; e.g. the cause of a house being built is
22 II, 3 | again the usage is twofold. Cause means either what is particular
23 II, 3 | simultaneously.~In investigating the cause of each thing it is always
24 II, 3 | art of building. This last cause then is prior: and so generally.~
25 II, 4 | spontaneity has some definite cause, e.g. coming "by chance"
26 II, 4 | find something which is the cause; but not chance, for if
27 II, 4 | can be ascribed to some cause (as the old argument said
28 II, 4 | This statement might well cause surprise. For they are asserting
29 II, 4 | something of the kind being the cause of them (for it is not any
30 II, 4 | spontaneously, having no such cause as is assigned to animals
31 II, 4 | believe that chance is a cause, but that it is inscrutable
32 II, 5 | chance is said to be the cause, nor can the "effect of
33 II, 5 | incidentally, so may it be a cause. For instance, the housebuilding
34 II, 5 | in virtue of itself the cause of a house, whereas the
35 II, 5 | musical is the incidental cause. That which is per se cause
36 II, 5 | cause. That which is per se cause of the effect is determinate,
37 II, 5 | determinate, but the incidental cause is indeterminable, for the
38 II, 5 | effected (getting the money) a cause present in himself-it belongs
39 II, 5 | chance is an incidental cause in the sphere of those actions
40 II, 5 | chance is an incidental cause. But strictly it is not
41 II, 5 | instance, a housebuilder is the cause of a house; incidentally,
42 II, 5 | incidental fact might be the cause of the chance occurrence,
43 II, 5 | the sun’s heat may be the cause, but having had one’s hair
44 II, 6 | and (3) have an external cause, may be described by the
45 II, 6 | spontaneous proper; for the cause of the latter is external,
46 II, 6 | intelligent agent is always the cause; but in this sort of causation
47 II, 6 | clear that no incidental cause can be prior to a cause
48 II, 6 | cause can be prior to a cause per se. Spontaneity and
49 II, 7 | general, are all things which cause movement by being themselves
50 II, 7 | province of physics, for they cause motion not by possessing
51 II, 7 | and to the primary moving cause. For in respect of coming
52 II, 7 | Now the principles which cause motion in a physical way
53 II, 7 | something, we must know this cause also. We must explain the "
54 II, 8 | writers ascribe things to this cause, arguing that since the
55 II, 8 | if they mention any other cause (one his "friendship and
56 II, 8 | others of the kind) which may cause difficulty on this point.
57 II, 8 | plain that this kind of cause is operative in things which
58 II, 8 | end, the form must be the cause in the sense of "that for
59 II, 8 | chance is an incidental cause, as I remarked before. But
60 II, 8 | plain then that nature is a cause, a cause that operates for
61 II, 8 | that nature is a cause, a cause that operates for a purpose.~
62 II, 9 | except as its material cause: it comes to be for the
63 II, 9 | the end; for that is the cause of the matter, not vice
64 III, 1 | be moved. For "what can cause movement" is relative to "
65 III, 1 | possible for a thing to cause motion, though it is itself
66 III, 2 | movable qua movable, the cause of the attribute being contact
67 III, 2 | will be the source and cause of the change, e.g. the
68 III, 5 | the infinite itself is the cause of its being fixed. This
69 III, 5 | but owing to some other cause.~Another difficulty emerges
70 III, 7 | plain that the infinite is a cause in the sense of matter,
71 IV, 1 | what in things is space the cause? None of the four modes
72 IV, 4 | further will make clear the cause of the trouble and of the
73 IV, 8 | To sum the matter up, the cause of this result is obvious,
74 IV, 12 | time is by its nature the cause rather of decay, since it
75 V, 5 | contrary would seem to be the cause of the contrariety of motions,
76 VI, 1 | and an equal velocity will cause a thing to pass through
77 VI, 9 | arguments about motion, which cause so much disquietude to those
78 VI, 9 | be one or the other, but cause most of its parts or the
79 VII, 5 | so that each force will cause the same distance to be
80 VII, 5 | or in any fraction of it cause B to traverse a part of
81 VII, 5 | might well be that it will cause no motion at all; for it
82 VII, 5 | motion, half that power will cause motion either of any particular
83 VII, 5 | the distance that they all cause the ship to traverse are
84 VII, 5 | have a definite thing that cause increase and a definite
85 VIII, 1 | there must have been some cause of its rest, rest being
86 VIII, 1 | change. For some things cause motion in only one way,
87 VIII, 1 | alternately predominate and cause motion, while in the intermediate
88 VIII, 1 | nature is everywhere the cause of order. Moreover, there
89 VIII, 1 | he ought to explain the cause of it: i.e. he should not
90 VIII, 1 | nevertheless an ulterior cause of the eternity of this
91 VIII, 1 | eternal and have no ulterior cause. Let this conclude what
92 VIII, 2 | organism in motion, and the cause of the motion of this part
93 VIII, 4 | 4~Now of things that cause motion or suffer motion,
94 VIII, 4 | that if e.g. a thing can cause itself to walk it can also
95 VIII, 4 | itself to walk it can also cause itself not to walk), and
96 VIII, 4 | distinguish the different kinds of cause.~The above-mentioned distinctions
97 VIII, 4 | the case of things that cause motion: some of them are
98 VIII, 4 | water is the accidental cause of motion): and in the same
99 VIII, 4 | in the same way the real cause of the motion of a ball
100 VIII, 5 | of motion: for it could cause motion in this sense only
101 VIII, 5 | by something else, is the cause and principle of motion,
102 VIII, 5 | is itself independently a cause is always prior as a cause
103 VIII, 5 | cause is always prior as a cause to that which is so only
104 VIII, 5 | a Whole both undergo and cause the same locomotion or alteration:
105 VIII, 5 | in the series is more the cause of its being moved than
106 VIII, 6 | and this it is that is the cause of the fact that some things
107 VIII, 6 | originated by them. The cause of it is not derived from
108 VIII, 6 | thus in some cases the cause is nourishment: when it
109 VIII, 6 | things the first movent and cause of their self-motion is
110 VIII, 6 | impossible that it should cause continuous motion. So the
111 VIII, 6 | thing that it moves and will cause it to be at one time at
112 VIII, 6 | motion and sometimes not? The cause of this is now plain: it
113 VIII, 6 | in the same state, will cause motion that is one and simple.~
114 VIII, 7 | of locomotion to be the cause even of the becoming of
115 VIII, 9 | Similarly those who assert no cause of this kind but say that "
116 VIII, 9 | those who make Soul the cause of motion: for they say
117 VIII, 10| that nothing finite can cause motion during an infinite
118 VIII, 10| impossible for the finite to cause motion during an infinite
119 VIII, 10| moves but will be able to cause motion always (for the causing
120 VIII, 10| anything that is in motion to cause motion continuously and
121 VIII, 10| that is eternal and does cause it during an infinite time.
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