Does efficient causation presuppose final causation? Aquinas vs. early modern mechanism

In Samuel Newlands & Larry M. Jorgensen (eds.), Metaphysics and the good: themes from the philosophy of Robert Merrihew Adams. New York: Oxford University Press (2009)
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Teleology in Spinoza and early modern rationalism.Don Garret - 1999 - In Gennaro Rocco & Huenemann Charles (eds.), New Essays on the Rationalists. Oxford University Press. pp. 310--36.

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