Before revision: These Platonic and Aristotelian arguments ran counter to those presented earlier by Democritus and later by Lucretius, both of whom were supporters of what is now often called accidentalism: Modern philosophy Personal Idealism George Holmes Howison argues vociferously for the ultimate reign of final causation, teleology, as the only form of causation consistent with freedom and morality.
After revision: These Platonic and Aristotelian arguments ran counter to those presented earlier by Democritus and later by Lucretius, both of whom were supporters of what is now often called accidentalism: Modern philosophy Personal Idealism George Holmes Howison argued for the ultimate reign of final causation, teleology, as the only form of causation consistent with freedom and morality.