Concept
Actus essendi
Overview
act of being or existence itself
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And this can be made evident if we consider the nature of material things which contain a twofold composition. The first is that of form and matter, whereby the nature is constituted. Such a composite nature is not its own existence but existence is its act. Hence the nature itself is related to its own existence as potentiality to act. Therefore if there be no matter, and supposing that the form itself subsists…
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
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114.] This identity, as it has descended from Being, appears in the first place only charged with the characteristics of Being, and referred to Being as to something external. This external Being, if taken in separation from the true Being (of Essence), is called the Unessential. But that turns out a mistake. Because Essence is Being-in-self, it is essential only to the extent that it has in itself its negative…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
States what Actus essendi is.
xxii. Coroll.). Q.E.D. PROP. XXV. No one wishes to preserve his being for the sake of anything else. Proof.--The endeavour, wherewith everything endeavours to persist in its being, is defined solely by the essence of the thing itself (III. vii.); from this alone, and not from the essence of anything else, it necessarily follows (III. vi.) that everyone endeavours to preserve his being. Moreover, this proposition is…
Benedictus de Spinoza, Ethics
States what Actus essendi is.
Philosophers who discussed Actus essendi
Related ideas
- Latin
- Thomas Aquinas
- Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Neoplatonism
- Pope John Paul II
- Aristotle
- I Am that I Am
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Part of Outline of metaphysics.