AKA genesis, creation myth...

I was contemplating Aristotle's Four Causes (material, formal, efficient, final) which I had recently (re)read. I was thinking of how my ESTE framework I built for 2bschool would fit in. I started using objects around me: "What causes/makes a table?"... I even tried the abstract: "What makes/causes a (good) life?" At that time, I had been living in Buenos Aires a few years. Argentina's capital city had been built as a port exporting Argentina's agricultural production. Though a city of ? >10 million, it kept it’s agricultural roots front and center

The city's largest convention center, nearby in my barrio, was called the Agricola.

At one point I mused, "What makes a bottle of wine?" I either had one in front of me—or wanted one in front of me and/or wistfully remembered having one.

Of course, I realized that was two separate questions "What makes a bottle?" "What makes wine?" Of course, there's a few stages: grape growing and then fermentation...

"What makes/causes crops, a farm?"

Material Cause: of course, there's a seed, but 99%(?) of the matter comes from drawing water and nutrients from the soil and photosynthesis, where carbon is pulled out of the air.

Formal cause. now that was the seed. Darwin called him the world's foremost biologist. In particular, Aristotle was an obsessed embryologist. Those seeds were the form: they contained 100% of the genetic information of the adult plant—or animal.

Efficient Cause: the work of farmers: the tending, weeding, perhaps watering

Final cause: well, you do it for the result:

Also, as the first 'E' in ESTE was for Existential, I thought about those terms—and for of the top terms were: Freedom, authenticity, responsibility & meaning

From teaching philosophy to engineers, giving tools to design their life (stories)