Prvi "teolozi" i učenje o uzrocima
First "Theologians" and the Doctrine of the Causes

Summary/Abstract: Aristotel viewed the first "theologians" as the thinkers who might be considered only as distant predecessors of the doctrine of the causes. Homer's Okeanosfragments could, therefore, but only quite conditionally, be specified as certain indication of comprehension of the material cause, comprehension which was, according to Aristotle, for the first time established when Tales set up the water as the primary substance. Hesiod's Eros, was regarded as the first anticipation of the efficient cause which, more or less, affected similar Parmenid's and Empedokle's achievements. His understanding of Chaos, also, enabled less difficult articulation of arche as a fundamental principle of everything in a strict phylosophical meaning. Finally, Ferekid's Zeus which had turned into Eros must be similarly considered as an indirect link to the certain, rather conceptually than mythically founded, efficient cause. Certainly, in addition to a potential contribution to the founding of the theory of four elements, it can be hardly accepted as authentic the attitude that the earth and water are the beginnings of all things (DK7A10 and DK7B1a).

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