Efficient Cause

Question 1

Efficient Cause

Answer 1

a principle from which motion firstly originates in the order of execution

Question 2

Order of execution

Answer 2

order by which actions are carried out in reality (ex: buying train tickets before riding train)

Question 3

Order of Intention

Answer 3

order by which things are planned or thought of (planning railway journey precedes buying train ticket)

Question 4

Principal Efficient Cause

Answer 4

Efficient cause which operates on its own nature. Production is proportionate to its own nature

Question 5

Instrumental Efficient Cause

Answer 5

Efficient cause which must be used by another efficient cause to produce effect beyond its proportionate power

Question 6

Example of principle and Instrumental efficient cause together

Answer 6

principal = writer
instrumental = pen
effect = intelligible writing (beyond power of pen w/o writer to move it and make letters)

Question 7

1st Principal Efficient Cause

Answer 7

doesn’t depend on anything else to cause something proportionate to its nature on its own power

Question 8

Secondary Principal Efficient Cause

Answer 8

needs help of another cause to make effect proportionate to its power

Question 9

Transitive act

Answer 9

act which begins in agent and finishes outside of it. (Action in strict sense of word)

Question 10

Immanent act

Answer 10

begins in agent and finishes inside it. Perfects the agent which acts Ex) thinking and willing in living beings.

Question 11

Static order

Answer 11

1 of 2 orders to which being belongs. Simply as existing independent of any activity, what makes being to be formally being
Precedes dynamic: can’t act if you first don’t exist
-includes reception of existence of substance and existence of operative potencies

Question 12

Dynamic order

Answer 12

1 of 2 orders to which being belongs. Being precisely as an agent, it acts
-includes activity of agent

Question 13

Operative Potencies

Answer 13

immediate and proximate principle of activity

Question 14

Are contingent beings proximate/immediate or mediate principles? Why?

Answer 14

Contingent beings themselves are mediate principles because they act through the medium that is operative potencies to bring about an effect.
-Contingent beings are not operative potencies themselves or else we would be able to see even though we are blind.

Question 15

What are the 3 stages being goes through to reach its fullness?

Answer 15

1) receives its existence (static order)
2) operative powers come into existence (static order)
3) by activity of agent (dynamic order; absolutely)