This chapter discusses what cause is, and elaborates on the different types of cause in the context of metaphysics, touching upon God and reality.
Part 3 Metaphysics
Chapter 18 Being and Causality
a. Elucidation of terms
b. Origin of the concept of cause: the four causes
c. Material cause and formal cause: Theological relevance
d. The efficient cause: creation and causality
e. The instrumental cause
f. The final cause: cause of all causes
g. Direction to end; freedom and love: the order of the universe
h. Importance of the principle of causality
