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... Bible Library Fifth Tractate. On Potentiality and Actuality. The Six Enneads — Plotinus 1. A distinction is made between things existing actually and things existing potentially; a certain Actuality, ...
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... Bible Library Whether the Angel's Intellect is Sometimes in Potentiality, Sometimes in Act? Summa Theologica — Saint Thomas Aquinas Objection 1: It would seem that the angel's intellect is sometimes in ...
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... Objection 1: It would seem that the soul is composed of matter and form. For potentiality is opposed to actuality. Now, whatsoever things are in actuality participate of the First Act ...
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... matter of all bodies is the same. Objection 3: Further, different acts befit different potentialities, and the same act befits the same potentiality. But all bodies have the same form ...
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... him. Therefore the body will be passible. Objection 2: Further, whatever is in potentiality to have the form of another thing is passible in relation to something else; for this ...
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... of the latter. Secondly, we must consider that our intellect proceeds from a state of potentiality to a state of actuality; and every power thus proceeding from potentiality to actuality comes first ...
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... sense a thing is said to be passive, from the very fact that what is in potentiality to something receives that to which it was in potentiality, without being deprived of anything. ...
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... : Further, the soul is nobler than primary matter. But primary matter is its own potentiality. Much more therefore is the soul its own power. Objection 3: Further, the ...
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... primary matter. But primary matter was created by God under the forms to which it has potentiality. Therefore much more is the intellectual soul created by God under intelligible species. And so ...
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... 1461] Q [49] , A [4 ] ) that only a being in potentiality is the subject of habit. So the above-mentioned commentators considered that angels are immaterial substances, ...
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... without matter, is act only: whereas what is composed of form and matter, has potentiality and act at the same time. Therefore nothing at the same time potential and actual can ...
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... was not created. Objection 2: Further, every actuality of matter is educed from the potentiality of that matter; for since matter is in potentiality to act, any act pre-exists in ...
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... resultant combination? But then, taken separately, their existence will not be actual but only potential, and they will not be found in isolation. Suppose, on the other hand, ...
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... 1), that "the soul is the act of a physical body which has life potentially." Therefore the soul is to the body as a form of matter. But the ...
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... that sense or intellect is distinct from the sensible or intelligible object, since both are in potentiality. Since therefore God has nothing in Him of potentiality, but is pure act, His ...
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... admitting a passive intellect in us is derived from the fact that we understand sometimes only in potentiality, and not actually. Hence there must exist some power, which, previous to the ...
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... of the mystical body not only as they are in act, but as they are in potentiality. Nevertheless, some are in potentiality who will never be reduced to act, and some ...
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... to which it is disposed; and so, that it should be related to it as potentiality is to act. Whence, if there is a being whose nature is not composed of ...
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... the active intellect is a "substance in actual being." But nothing can be in potentiality and in act with regard to the same thing. If, therefore, the passive intellect ...
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... is a being in act; secondly, relatively, i.e. whatever is a being in potentiality. And because, as is said Metaph. ix, 20, everything is known as ...
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... Matter is the substrate of Form? Form is rather the completion which Matter's nature as pure potentiality demands. Moreover, Form cannot be said to reside in Matter [as in a substrate ...
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... (Phys. i, text 43), but directly from the subject which is in potentiality. And so the contrary resists the agent, inasmuch as it impedes the potentiality from the ...
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... everything that is moved is moved by something else, since nothing is moved unless it is potentially that to which it is moved, whereas that which moves is actual. To move is ...
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... is put in motion by another, for nothing can be in motion except it is in potentiality to that towards which it is in motion; whereas a thing moves inasmuch as it is ...
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... , because the first being must of necessity be in act, and in no way in potentiality. For although in any single thing that passes from potentiality to actuality, the potentiality is ...
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