#140- Heidegger's "What Is Metaphysics?" Part 2
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Aristotle's Final Cause
Aristotle lets us be peop and use things for our purposes. So he acknowledges that there's people doing people's stuff. The four causes make them sense in human artifac so when we give examples of them. We use houses. And the purpose of a house is to sell mortgages or to shelter people, whatever. But aristotle lets us have the final cause so that people can use stuff. Yes, he does pull a fast one on us though, no, it's not a fast one in innicamicin ethics. I think it's book two, might be book one. It would be strange for a hand to have a final cause, or an eye to have
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