La forma, una causa olvidada (original) (raw)

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ABSTRACT.― “Form, a forgotten cause”. What is left now of the philosophy of nature? Almost nothing since most scientists and philosophers seem to be satisfied with a non-explicative, positivistic, pragmatic, opportunist, and interventionist science which crumbles up reality. The world is seen as if it were devoid of reason and order. That is why this essay takes up again some old, forgotten ideas, such as the notions of realist metaphysics, causality, form and formal cause, natural intelligibility, and the value of symbols and images of natural language, silenced by the predictive efficacy of mathematics. The main thesis states that the formal cause is the first principle of natural intelligibility. From a point a view even more naturalist than that adopted by Aristotle, an effort is made in order to elucidate what the form and the formal cause are, how form and matter make up just one entity, and how the sense of hylomorphism can be reinterpreted. KEYWORDS: Form; formal cause; reinterpretation of hylomorphism; natural intelligibility; symbolisms; natural philosophy; realist metaphysics.

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