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Is There a Connection Between Final Cause and Formal Cause?
We can conceive of things acting for an end. If there were not real finalities and things, would we even have a concept of finality? An objection to that could be, well, we are intelligent beings. So we act for an end in an intelligent manner. When I see a goal and I take steps to undertake it, I'm doing something. And when fire heats, it's doing something such that if I didn't achieve my goal or a fire didn't heat, what I was striving to do would be frustrated. But that's where, you know, this sort of the commonality ends. The way in which I am doing something and the way in which fire is