THE FINAL CAUSE

THEORY

GLOBAL ISSUE

AREA OF KNOWLEDGE

Aristotle stated that there are four causes that explain why events occur. These are the material cause, efficient cause, formal cause, and the final cause. All of these causes analyze a certain aspect of an event and explain the process of that certain area. This certain philosophy relates back to the area of knowledge of science. In biology class we learned about the water cycle, as well as the digestive system, all of these natural processes correspond to Aristotle´s theory of The Final Cause.
A global issue that relates to this theory is Global warming. Every day I see news of how the world is warming up because of the excess of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. I really became aware of this problem when watching the documentary of An Inconvenient truth. Aristotle´s final cause theory explains each aspect of why this event takes place. However the final cause of this issue is negative since it is the trapping if sunlight in the Earth´s Atmosphere.