{"id":4685,"date":"2020-07-27T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=4685"},"modified":"2022-05-08T00:01:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T00:01:25","slug":"comments-on-armand-maurers-essay-2004-darwin-thomists-and-secondary-causality-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=4685","title":{"rendered":"Comments on Armand Maurer\u2019s Essay (2004) &#8220;Darwin, Thomists and Secondary Causality&#8221; (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0024 Franscisco Suarez (7348-7417 U0\u2019) lives at the time of Galileo.&nbsp;&nbsp;He continues the scholastic tradition.&nbsp;&nbsp;He comments on Aquinas, just as previously, Aquinas comments on the&nbsp;<em>Book of Causes<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The doctrine of secondary causes is well established, not as I portray it here, using category-based nested forms, but as&nbsp;<em>a foil to primary causation<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>a mirror to instrumental causes<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suarez writes the first systematic treatise on metaphysics in the Western world.&nbsp;&nbsp;His book is translated and read across Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0025 He makes four points about primary and secondary causes (C-F).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first created thing is being (C).&nbsp;&nbsp;God is the primary cause of being (A).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secondary causes are true causes (D).&nbsp;&nbsp;They are not symptoms of primary causation (B).&nbsp;&nbsp;Creatures have powers that make events happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secondary causes cannot be divorced from primary causality (E).&nbsp;&nbsp;This point distinguishes secondary from instrumental causality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The claim that creatures exhibit true active powers<\/em>&nbsp;gives&nbsp;<em>a greater dignity to creatures and their Creator<\/em>, than&nbsp;<em>claims that secondary powers are symptoms of primary causation<\/em>&nbsp;(F).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0026 Darwin grasps this last point (F) as a metaphysical justification for his theory of evolution through natural selection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0024 Franscisco Suarez (7348-7417 U0\u2019) lives at the time of Galileo.&nbsp;&nbsp;He continues the scholastic tradition.&nbsp;&nbsp;He comments on Aquinas, just as previously, Aquinas comments on the&nbsp;Book of Causes.&nbsp;&nbsp;The doctrine of secondary causes is well established, not as I portray it here, using category-based nested forms, but as&nbsp;a foil to primary causation&nbsp;and&nbsp;a mirror to instrumental causes. 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