Potentiality
31actuality and potentiality — (fi‘l, quwwa): See metaphysics; psychology …
32potential — potentiality …
33Aristotle — For other uses, see Aristotle (disambiguation). Ἀριστοτέλης, Aristotélēs Marble bust of Aristotle. Roman copy after a Gree …
34Actus Purus — • A term employed in scholastic philosophy to express the absolute perfection of God Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Actus Purus Actus Purus …
35Cause — • Cause, as the correlative of effect, is understood as being that which in any way gives existence to, or contributes towards the existence of, any thing; which produces a result; to which the origin of any thing is to be ascribed Catholic… …
36Matter — • Taking the term in its widest sense, matter signifies that out of which anything is made or composed Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Matter Matter …
37Existence (Philosophy of) 1 — Philosophy of existence 1 Heidegger Jacques Taminiaux At the very outset and up to the end, the long philosophical journey of Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) remained oriented by a single question, the question of Being, the Seinsfrage. This does… …
38Actus et Potentia — • A technical expression in scholastic phraseology used to translate Aristotle s energeia or entelecheia, and dynamis Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Actus Et Potentia Actus et Potentia …
39Actus et potentia — is a technical expression in Aristotelianism and Scholasticism. Potentia (Greek dunamis ) expresses a potential or capacity, a non realized possibility for which there is still an ability or disposition. Actus (Greek energeia ) refers to the… …
40Aristotle the philosopher of nature — David Furley 1 THE TREATISES ON NATURE The subject matter of the present chapter is what Aristotle has to say about the natural world the subject that in classical Greek is most accurately rendered as ta physika. But of course this includes many… …
