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+title: Causality
+published: 2024-12-27
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+  I don't believe in any religion, but the notion of Buddhism's idea of Karma, i.e. cause and effect, seems to prevail
+  in many aspects of our lives and works, which is why I was drawn upon this topic of "Causality"
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+This article is an overview of the Cause and Effect as the Principle of Causality, establishing one event or action as
+the direct result of another, from the following 4 perspectives:
+
+1. Kant's Metaphysics
+2. Aristotle's Philosophy
+3. Chinese Ying-Yang
+4. Buddhism's Karma
+
+Kant's  Metaphysics
+-------------------
+
+:::note[References]
+
+- Wikipedia, [_Causality_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality)
+
+:::
+
+The nature of cause and effect is a concern of the subject known as metaphysics. __Kant__ thought that time and space
+were notions prior to human understanding of the progress or evolution of the world, and he also recognized the priority
+of causality. But he did not have the understanding that came with knowledge of [Minkowski geometry] and the
+[Special Theory of Relativity], that the notion of causality can be used as a prior foundation from which to
+[construct notions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_structure) of time and space
+
+Buddhist Philosophy
+-------------------
+
+All the classic Buddhist schools teach [Karma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma) (Sanskrit: कर्म). "The law of karma is a special instance of the law of cause and effect, according to which all our actions of body, speech, and mind are causes and all our experiences are their effects."
+
+Western Philosophy
+------------------
+
+In Book II, Chapter 3 of his work "[Physics](https://trello.com/c/fIM7TADB)", __Aristotle__ identified 4 kinds of answer
+or explanatory mode to various "Why?" questions:
+
+1. _Material Cause_: Aristotle considers the material "cause" of an object as equivalent to the nature of the raw
+   material out of which the object is composed.
+
+   Whereas modern Physics looks to simple bodies, Aristotle's Physics took a more general viewpoint, and treated living 
+   things as exemplary. Nevertheless, he argued that simple natural bodies such as earth, fire, air, and water also
+   showed signs of having their own innate sources of motion, change, and rest. Fire, for example, carries things
+   upwards, unless stopped from doing so. Things formed by human artifice, such as beds and cloaks, have no innate
+   tendency to become beds or cloaks.
+
+2. _Formal Cause_: Aristotle considers the formal "cause" as describing the pattern or form which when present makes
+   matter into a particular type of thing, which we recognize as being of that particular type.
+3. _Efficient Cause_: Aristotle defines the agent or efficient "cause" of an object as that which causes change and
+   drives transient motion (such as a painter painting a house) (see Aristotle, _Physics_ II 3, 194b29). In many cases,
+   this is simply the thing that brings something about. For example, in the case of a statue, it is the person
+   chiseling away which transforms a block of marble into a statue. [According to Lloyd, of the four causes, only this
+   one is what is meant by the modern English word "cause" in ordinary speech](https://trello.com/c/V3QZplQN).
+4. _Final Cause_: the criterion of completion, or the end; it may refer to an action or to an inanimate process.
+   Examples: Socrates takes a walk after dinner for the sake of his health; earth falls to the lowest level because that
+   is its nature.
+
+[Minkowski geometry]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_space#Causal_structure
+[Special Theory of Relativity]: https://github.com/QubitPi/general-relativity