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Volume 50 - July 1975

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Discussion

  • Cause and Because in Aristotle

  • G. R. G. Mure
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 February 2009, pp. 356-357

  • Philosophy, October 1974, contains an article entitled ‘Aristotle's Four Becauses’, by Professor Max Hocutt, who contends that Aristotle's aitia (or aition) means ‘a because’ or ‘an explanation’ rather than ‘a cause’ and should be translated accordingly. He argues (a) that only Aristotle's efficient ‘cause’ is a cause in the English sense of the word, and (b) that ‘Aristotle's theory of “causes” is simply an application of his theory of syllogistic to the analysis of scientific knowledge’ (p. 389). Both contentions deserve a word.

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  • Mr Bennett on Huckleberry Finn

  • Jenny Teichman
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 February 2009, pp. 358-359

  • Mr Bennett in his interesting essay in the April 1974 issue of Philosophy claims that ‘… in a particular case sympathy and morality may pull in opposite directions. This can happen not just with bad moralities, but also with good ones like yours and mine.’ By sympathy he says he means ‘every sort of fellow-feeling’. Although a triumph of sympathy over morality may be a good thing, it also represents a triumph of irrationality over reason (p. 126).

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