A new theory of emulation--the method by which one learns from moral role models--is emerging through the combined efforts of philosophers, psychologists and educationists. Using a previous argument reconceptualising emulation as a moral virtue as a philosophical springboard, in this paper, I extend this theory by building a more robust case for how emulation "qua" role modelling works in practice through direct appeal to Aristotle's account of causation: the four causes. Historically revered for their explanatory power, I argue that reconstructing the four causes and synthesising them with emulation enables us to better comprehend it as a quadripartite causal process. Through doing so, I propose that emulation is driven by 'entangled "phronesis"'--a mechanism which enables immature moral learners to acquire virtue by sharing in the "phronesis," that is, practical wisdom, of a role model. Since the degree of entanglement depends upon a learner's phase of virtuous character development, I also divide emulation into two types: "pre-phronetic" 'habituated emulation' and "phronetically-informed" 'complete emulation'. Combined with my four-causal account of emulation, these concepts represent a novel contribution to neo-Aristotelian character developmental theory and help explain--step-by-step--the method by which one potentially acquires moral virtue and "phronesis" from moral role models.