The Death of Socrates: but why?
Philosophizing -> Mental healthy or better reasoning are final causes.
Exercising -> Healthy or look or admiration or sex are final causes. That is, one exercises because of wanting to look good. One believes by exercising one will look good.
According to Socrates virtue is sufficient to happiness meaning to focus on self-development rather than the pursuit of material wealth. Nevertheless, the choice is your personal – problem, a mental problem.
(A program on Socrates – to listen)
Ville: Well, tell me why philosophizing would be useful?
Marjatta: Nobody is home. A man’s question you boy.
V: Thus, what’s it?
M: So where it?
V: That’ is.
M: Tee! What it?
V: So, where it?
M: No, get it!
V: Could it? Wank it?
M: Yes I told it already!
V: So what is it?
M: If nobody is home, then philosophizing is.
And she points a finger at her head at the same time.
A goal as a cause: doing A because of B. B is a goal and doing A is an effect which would lead to the goal B, or so Marjatta believes in, and thus she chooses to do A. However, Marjatta does not grasp why B materializes in her thoughts to the desiring thing.
Tags: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind
Thanks for the booby trap…