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We don’t talk this way, but here is the Aristotelian, metaphysical foundation underlying the decision making process taught at Thresholds. Solid stuff!

<< The Final Cause is “that on account of which something is done.” When an intelligent agent acts up to his intelligence, that which he does is not done at random or aimlessly, but he has a purpose before him for which he is striving. The accomplishment of that purpose will mark the end of his activity in this particular undertaking. It is this purpose that incites him to action, that keeps his efforts from being expended uselessly on irrelevant issues, and that guides him in the choice of means that will help to the accomplishment of what he set out to do.

All his efforts, in fact, are under control of the purpose he has in view. When his efforts come to a successful end, there will be found in reality something which, when he began, had existence only in the idea, but which in its ideal existence incited him and guided him to make its existence real. That is the final cause. >>

That is also the unperceived, undeniable real essence of the decision making process taught at Thresholds.

Paraphrased from an introduction to metaphysics by John F. McCormack.

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