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Tag Archives: Theory of Act and Potency
Touching upon the Theory of Act and Potency
0. I’ll start this post, the sixth in a series dedicated to a sustained reading of and commentary upon Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle,* with a brief overview of the posts that have seen the light of … Continue reading →
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Tagged Aristotelianism, Aristotle, Aristotle’s Metaphysics, John-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness, Neo-Aristotelianism, Perfection, Pure Act, The Limitation of Act by Potency, The Twenty-Four Thomistic Theses, Theory of Act and Potency, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Aquinas' Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics, Thomism
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Two Questions re Thomistic Metaphysics. A Plea for Their Answers
0. Introduction. I am in the process of preparing myself, and hardly for the first time, for an effort at coming to a determination of whether the arguments for the existence of God set forth by Thomas Aquinas in the … Continue reading →
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Tagged Aristotle, Existence, Existence as Actuality, Existence as Perfection, Existence as Ultimate Actuality, First Principles, Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange’s God. His Existence and His Nature, Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange’s Reality. A Synthesis of Thomistic Thought, Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange’s The One God, The Limitation of Act by Potency, Theory of Act and Potency, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae, Thomism, Thomistic “Existentialism”, Thomistic Metaphysics
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Aquinas’s Thesis of the Identity of the Intellect Knowing and the Intellectual Object Known
This post is the eighth in a series dedicated to a sustained reading of and commentary upon Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics.* 0. In a previous post, the “Touching upon the Theory of Act and Potency,” of August 23, … Continue reading →