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From the power which we have or acquire of deducing future results from present causes we are enabled to act towards, with a view to produce, these results thus [Greek: eneka] comes to mean not causation merely, but
Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle
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Every action has two beginnings, that of Resolve ([Greek: ou eneka]), and that of Action ([Greek: othen ae kenaesis]).
Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle
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The mind attains truth, either for the sake of truth itself ([Greek: aplos]), or for the sake of something further ([Greek: eneka tinos]).
Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle
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[Greek: eneka] primarily denotes the relation of cause and effect all circumstances which in any way contribute to a cert result are [Greek: eneka] that result.
Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle
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[Greek: eneka] that is to say, the King's death was _in fact the result_, but could not have been the motive, of the shot, because the
Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle
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When the man "drew a bow at a venture and smote the King of Israel between the joints of the harnesss" (i Kings xxii 34) he did it [Greek: eneka ton apdkteinai] the King of Israel, in the primary sense of
Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle
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When a remote cousin of Lord Henniker was elected to the Head Mastership of Rossall, a disappointed competitor said that it was a case of [Greek: eneka tou kuriou]; but a Greek joke is scarcely fair play.
Collections and Recollections George William Erskine Russell 1886
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{Peri de tes ek ton allelon anthropon geneseos} etc. -- {oych edones eneka e} {mixis}.
Letters 1760
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.. e epi damarti, k.t.l. ... touton eneka me pheugein kteinanta.
Hiero 2007
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_designed_ causation and so [Greek: on eneka] is used for Motive, or final cause.
Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle
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