final cause

My mother's words might very well have captured this movement's final cause.

Next, David looked up the final causes of death.

This fact may perhaps be one of the final causes why the body exists at all.

The blue flame was the sole final cause of the destruction.

One in which "the human race was the point, the heart, the final cause of the whole system.

As he rather paradoxically put it, the final cause had to be first.

An event's final cause is the aim or purpose being served by it.

That's called final or Ideological cause - the purpose of something.

This approach understands human nature in terms of final and formal causes.

The final cause, or telos, is the purpose of the thing.