Aristotle seven causes

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Aristotle said in his book, Rhetoric:<br /> <br /> 'Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.'<br /> <br /> Within this, he notes that all actions are due either to emotion or reason and that we seek pleasant things and act to reduce pain, thus predating Freud's pleasure-pain principle by over 2000 years.<br /> Chance<br /> <br /> Chance events affect us all the time and, although some have little effect in changing what we do, a number of others force us to act or otherwise motivate us into action.<br /> <br /> 'The things that happen by chance are all those whose cause cannot be determined, that have no purpose, and that happen neither always nor usually nor in any fixed way.'</div>

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Aristotle said in his book, Rhetoric: 'Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, hab...

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