Cause
“αἴτιον”
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
the cause · cause · the fourth class
spoken of as
1 expressionThe cause“that which produces the mixture”1 mention
Philebus (Greek)
for how could it come into being apart from a cause?
in the texts
Stromata
The general philosophical concept of a cause, analyzed and subdivided throughout the passage.
When, then, the antecedent causes are removed, the result remains;
Further, it is inquired whether many causes, by concurrence of one result, become several causes.
and the stones in an arch are causes to one another of the predicate "to remain," but are not causes of one another;
Philebus
The fourth class: the agent or cause responsible for combining the finite and infinite into the mixed class, argued to be distinct from what it produces.
for how could it come into being apart from a cause?
Then the cause and that which is the servant of the cause for the purpose of generation are not the same.
See whether you think that everything which comes into being must necessarily come into being through a cause.