
Episode 18 – Causality According to the Aristotelian-Thomistic Perspective | Prof. Michael Gorman
Aquinas 101 - Course 2: Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy
The Connection Between Causation and Act and Potency
The form and matter, however, are more intimately bound up with one another than the football example suggests. In the case of a natural entity, the form is an inter-explanatory principle that not only arranges the matter, but makes the matter to be the kind of matter that it is. The potential cause becomes an actual cause precisely in as much as the potential effect becomes an actual effect.
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