Madhusudana in his " Siddhanta-bindu " explains that Ishvara is Pure consciousness Brahman afflicted by nescience, and the reflection of consciousness in nescience is the jiva who is himself thus the material and efficient cause of the universe through his own nescience.
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The formal cause of beauty is the passion of love; the material cause concerns aspects of certain objects such as smallness, smoothness, delicacy, etc .; the efficient cause is the calming of our nerves; the final cause is God's providence.
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The reason for the conservation of forms, genus and species in matter is fixity of their celestial cause because their efficient cause is the Universal Soul of the spheres instead of the change and continuous flux of individuals which is due to the variability of their cause .
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It is presumed, however, that Greek thought denied the existence of a natural world where causality was infinite, which gave rise to Aristotle's doctrine of " efficient cause, " or first cause, " upon which the order of other causes must rely.
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However Durkheim made a clear distinction between historical and functional analysis, saying, " When . . . the explanation of a social phenomenon is undertaken, we must seek separately the efficient cause which produces it and the function it fulfills " [ cited in Coser, 1977 : 140 ].
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Fr . 12 ) preserves Aristotle's own Prime Mover is not the efficient cause of action in the Universe, and plays no part in constructing or arranging it . . . But, although he rejects the divine Artificer, Aristotle does not resort to a pure mechanism of random forces.
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In developing his arguments, he inherently defined " Ishvara " as efficient cause, omnipotent, omniscient, infallible, giver of gifts, ability and meaning to humanity, divine creator of the world as well as the moral principles, and the unseen power that makes the karma doctrine work.
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Likewise, the agent is entitled to commission where the transaction was completed by another person, but the agent performed the acts that were the efficient cause, or causa causans, of the transaction, although not, of course, if the agent s services were not the efficient cause of the transaction.
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Likewise, the agent is entitled to commission where the transaction was completed by another person, but the agent performed the acts that were the efficient cause, or causa causans, of the transaction, although not, of course, if the agent s services were not the efficient cause of the transaction.
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To examine causality, Heidegger draws on the four Aristotelian causes : " causa materialis ", the material cause; " cause formalis ", the formal cause; " causa finalis ", the final cause; and " cause efficiens ", the effect or efficient cause.
