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    Concrete realizations of the supreme good are both the ef... — Carmelics
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    Concrete realizations of the supreme good are both the efficient and final cause of the universe, making them both alpha and omega.

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    • 1.Realizing the property of divinity (being the supreme good) is the final cause (telos) of the universe.
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    • 2.Axiarchism holds that final causes can function as efficient causes.
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    • 3.Concrete realizations of the supreme good are the efficient cause of the universe under axiarchism.
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    • 1.Efficient causation requires a temporally (or ontologically) prior agent that acts, but abstract values or goods lack causal powers to initiate anything.
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    • 2.Aristotle's own framework treats final causes as explanatory attractors, not as productive agents—conflating these categories commits a category error.
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    • 3.Axiarchism's inference that value-facts can double as efficient causes smuggles in a teleological premise it is supposed to establish, rendering the argument circular.
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    • 1.Hume's regularity theory of causation denies that abstract entities like 'the supreme good' can stand in genuine causal relations to concrete events.
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    • 2.If concrete realizations of the supreme good are both cause and effect of the universe, the causal chain lacks an independent explanatory terminus, violating the principle of sufficient reason it invokes.
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    John Bishop and Ken Perszyk (2016, 2017) propose a panentheism they call a “euteleological conception of divinity” (model 22 here), on which (1) divinity is the property or activity of being the supreme good (“eu” in “euteleological”) and (2) realizing this property or activity is the point (“telos” or final cause) of the universe. In addition—inspired by an unusual kind of efficient causation called “axiarchism” on which final causes can function as efficient ones, an idea visible at least sinc
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