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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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