End, Cause and Effect
Ends are in the first degree, causes in the second, and effects in the third.
- the end is not the cause, but that it produces the cause,
- the cause is not the effect, but that it produces the effect;
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So: they are three distinct things following in order --
- The end with man is the love of his will, for what a man loves, this he proposes to himself and intends;
- the cause with him is the reason of his understanding, for by means of it the end seeks for mediate or efficient causes; and
- the effect is the operation of the body from them.